The steady torrent of spaghetti science helps to demonstrate that deep questions lurk in our ordinary routines, and that there are plenty of hungry physicists who can't stop asking them.

Scientists have been complaining for years that the way we fund science is flawed ... an eternity in fast-moving fields like genetic engineering. Project leaders report that nearly 50 percent ...

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by seemingly innocuous things — common bacteria in “The War of the Worlds,” water in “Signs” — is not new in science fiction. The so-called Reapers that appear out of the blue to kill ...