Molly Webster appears in the following:
The ethics of war robots
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Now that it's possible to program unmanned combat vehicles to make decisions about where (and who) to strike in war situations, new questions of ethics have risen: In which situations...
Beetles killing millions of acres of pine
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
» Video: "America's Disappearing Forests" (The New York Times)
» "Bark Beetles Kill Millions of Acres of Trees in West" (The New York Times)
"If you stand on a mountaintop in ...
Walking makes you smart
Thursday, November 13, 2008
"Just looking at a picture of nature was relaxing enough to actually produce some cognitive benefits." -- Jonah Lehrer
Bats
Friday, October 31, 2008
Dead bats in caves all over New England share one common trait: unusually white, fuzzy noses. A new study points to a fungus as the culprit.
Children's Health
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The largest children's study ever undertaken in the United States kicks off in 2009. Researchers plan on tracking 100,000 kids from the womb to the age when they can legally crack ope...
Blame evolution for our urge to skewer Wall Street
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
How many times have you heard the phrase, “Life’s not fair?” And yet, we haven’t let it stop us from trying to make everyone equal. We right wrongs, punish evil-doers, stop injustice....
Biologists are using giant tortoise DNA to bring an extinct turtle back from the dead
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Down in the Galapagos, a long extinct sea turtle may be resurrected from the dead. An international team of researchers has found that a living breed of tortoise carries some of the s...
In a modern-age whodunnit, the brain is used as evidence in an Indian trial
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
India has become the first country to convict a person of a crime based on a brain scan. This past summer, a woman was given a life sentence for murder after prosecutors strapped her ...