"New data will help anthropologists discover the true age of 26,000-year-old fossils, setting the stage for better understanding of Earth's past."
- Range of dates available pushed back from 21KYBP to 26KYBP.
- Wired ----
One of the world's greatest physicists, Roger Penrose, publishes a new book taking on the grand unifying "theory of everything."
- Interesting blurb, as it appears Penrose is debunking the grand rush for a grand unified TOE.
- Wired; Boston appearance, NYT Sunday Book Review, Axis of Logic.
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"Scientists may not have to go over to the dark side to explain the fate of the universe."
- (*groan*) In over-simplification, the extra dimentions of space, albeit small ones, that are implied by string theory may provide the extra volume required for gravity to degrade faster than R^-2. Leftover hardware from Apollo mission on Moon may provide a suitable experimental base to test this prediction. - NYU, via Space.com, and PhysOrg.com, New Scientist ----
