Think of a loved one suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or a child with spinal cord injuries. Imagine a treatment that promises their recovery at the...
Science and technology
E-books will change the way we read, but the digital future of fiction remains unclear. Oprah, the queen of book clubs, has blessed the Kindle, Amazon's...
High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance. We heard a lot over the early years of the late (once and future?) War on Terror about weapons of...
Don’t listen to those New Atheists, says this Vatican astronomer. You shouldn’t have to choose between science and faith. Last fall, I confess, I was in the...
Thou shalt not stop ordinary Catholics from using the Internet to speak their minds. When Genevieve Kineke and a group of laywomen decided this year to...
Nearly 40 years ago Soviet Cosmonaut Yury Gagarin was shot up into the heavens and reported back that he could see no signs of God in space. Judging from...
How did you end up being both an astronomer and a Jesuit brother? I was a Sputnik kid. I started school the year Sputnik went up, and I was in high school...
One reason "Mission Impossible" was so successful as a thriller this year it that lots of American workers could understand Tom Cruise's sense of...
The preselection technology that will advance the future's construction of the perfect child already exists. Prefertilization genetic screening and...
If you're a current college student, chances are Facebook.com is the homepage on your laptop. Which means you're spending way more time...
