The sun's recent funk, color-changing squid, lab-grown glands, giant Martian volcanoes, the rosy side of feeling blue, and more in the November 2 issue.
November 2, 2013
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The sun's recent funk, color-changing squid, lab-grown glands, giant Martian volcanoes, the rosy side of feeling blue, and more in the November 2 issue.
Damian Davalos/Flickr
If all physicists could explain their work as well as Stephen Hawking explained black holes in his 1988 best seller A Brief History of Time, science writers would have to find other work. The British theorist’s new book proves that he is nearly as adept at writing about himself.
Still going strong at age 71 despite amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Hawking can write only three words a minute using a computer that senses his cheek movements. He wastes few of his 20,000 words,