Popular Science awards good, bad, and highly implausible movie science. The Island, Fantastic Four, and Batman Begins are all featured. (via SF Signal)
Transparisteel, almost.
The Air Force is testing transparent aluminum… As Karen Traviss points out, we’re getting damn close to transparisteel!
Also, the testing is at the Wright-Patterson Air Force base… I’ve been there. It’s where the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is. Totally a must-see for anyone into that sort of thing – it’s huge. (And if you’re lucky, sometimes they give tours of the warehouses of all the stuff they’re not putting up in the main museum. Or at least they did a few years back.)
Search for Hobbits widens
Rivendell, Minas Tirith, even Lothlórien. But Indonesia? Merry and Pippin got around.
The wizard gene
Geneticists in Scotland are exploreing a Darwinian explanation of the Harry Potter’s inheritance of magical abilities, with an eye towards teaching children about genetics.