In James Cameron's fantasy films, like "Avatar" and "The Abyss," the unexplored is splashed in color and fraught with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, reality proved far different: white, barren and bland.
Yet (...)
WASHINGTON: If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet went down in a city, state or country for a day or a week.
Sure, we'd survive. People have done (...)
WASHINGTON: Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist, says it is too risky to try to talk to space aliens.
Oops. Too late.
NASA and others have already beamed several messages into deep space, trying to phone E.T.
The US space agency, (...)