Jun 23rd, 2007 · Near the town of Alliance, Neb., stands an installation called Carhenge. The artwork replicates Stonehenge in England, but in the form of 38 vintage American cars, half buried in the ground. Carhenge draws about 30,000 tourists a month during the summer, and it turns 20 this weekend.
Jun 2nd, 2007 · This week's bizarre news of a transatlantic traveler with tuberculosis raised questions about the microbe that causes the disease. In our regular segment "Science Out of the Box," Dr. Richard Chaisson of Johns Hopkins University explains that the TB bacterium is very slow to replicate, and this slows diagnosis, treatment and research.
Oct 16th, 2006 · Researchers studying how the brain cells of squirrels shut down almost completely during hibernation report they have figured out how this mechanism works. Understanding how to replicate squirrel hibernation may prevent brain damage in people who have had a stroke.
Oct 15th, 2006 · After six years in the pet-cloning business, Genetic Savings and Clone is closing its doors. Despite research and spending millions, the company had only minor success. It cloned a few cats, but was never able to replicate a dog. Nell Boyce reports.
Jun 28th, 2006 · A bunch of friends from high school form a rock band, united by the dream of getting heard -- and against long odds, it happens. But then comes the rock and roll nightmare: After a first flash of exposure, the band spends the next few years trying to replicate its success. This could have happened to the Walkmen, which formed when most of its members were in high school, at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. A Hundred Miles Off, the third Walkmen CD, came out recently.
Feb 3rd, 2006 · Researchers at Seoul National University last year said they had made eleven different embryonic stem cell lines from cloned human embryos. Investigation has proven that breakthrough work to be fabricated. Now, two research teams in the United Kingdom are trying to replicate the work legitimately.
May 13th, 2005 · Researchers have designed simple robots that can make copies of themselves. Far from the vision of von Neumann machines that could mine distant planets, for instance, these stacks of magnetic cubes pivot, bend, and reassemble with new parts to form new stacks.
May 13th, 2005 · For years, scientists have dreamt of making robots that can self-reproduce. Someday, such a machine could be sent to explore a distant planet, where it could clone itself. Now, researchers say they've come up with primitive robots that can self-replicate.