Glenn Reynolds:
I’m all for returning to the Moon, but I wonder if this plan is the way to do it. Or, for that matter, the best investment of $100 billion toward spaceflight over the next 12 years.

By examining how proteins have evolved, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered a set of simple “rules” that nature appears to use to design proteins, rules the scientists have now employed to create artificial proteins that look and function just like their natural counterparts.

Researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., have announced the creation of the world’s smallest mobile, controllable robot.

The Danish government is under attack for paying for its disabled citizens to have sex with prostitutes.

Drew Crouch: Who speaks and acts for the future? Who among us advocates for generations to come and the world that will be – taking positive steps to create a better tomorrow? There are a multitude of groups who work on behalf of current, very worthy causes. Many groups dedicated to memorializing the past. [...]

A new drug approved for treating severe short stature is in trials for less severe growth conditions.

With Google’s book-scanning program set to resume in earnest in the northern autumn, copyright laws that long preceded the Internet look to be headed for a digital-age test.

NASA today announced the Regolith Excavation Challenge, a new Centennial Challenges prize competition that will award $250,000 to the winning team and has the potential to significantly contribute to the nation’s space exploration goals. The competition is in collaboration with the California Space Education and Workforce Institute (CSEWI).