Dec 17th, 2007 · The Mingyong glacier, China's lowest, is retreating at a rate that astonishes scientists. The glacier helps feed rivers that deliver water to hundreds of millions of people -- and no one knows what will happen as it continues to melt.
Dec 20th, 2006 · Clint Eastwood continues to astonish. His latest film, Letters from Iwo Jima parallels his recent Flags of Our Fathers, but it takes audiences to a place that would seem unimaginable for an American director. It's a feat of empathetic cross-cultural connection that Eastwood, more or less, willed into existence.
Apr 19th, 2006 · Neurobiologist James McGaugh is one of the world's leading experts on how human memory works. In the current issue of the journal Neurocase, McGaugh reports on a woman with the astonishing ability to clearly remember events that happened to her decades ago.