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Mars

Massachusetts

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

matter

. See also dark matter Matzke, Nick

Maxwell, James Clerk

McEuen, Paul

McGee, Harold

MEG (magnetoencephalography)

Melvill, Mike memory

addiction relapse and

aging and

music and

sleep and

memory loss

Alzheimer’s disease and

amnesia and

men, brain function

mental calisthenics

mental illness

mercury

methamphetamine

methane

methanol

microgravity

microscope, atomic force

Microsoft

microwave background radiation

mind

mini hurricanes, shower curtains and

miracles

MIT. See Massachusetts Institute of

Technology mitochondrial DNA

Modeen, David

Moglen, Eben

molecular biology

molecular manufacturing

molecules

Monsanto

moon

Moore, Gordon

Moore, Patrick

Moore’s law

Moosa, Ebrahim

moral imperative, global warming and

morality

Morpho butterfly

mortality

motion, laws of

MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)

Muhammad (prophet)

multitasking

Murdoch, Iris

Murphy, Carol

music

musical hallucinations

music therapy

Musk, Elon

Muslims

nanobots

nanocrystals, wireless

“nano noses,”

Nanosolar

nanosolar technology

Nanosys

nanotechnology

nanotubes. See carbon nanotubes nanowires

NASA

Nathan, David

National Academy of Sciences

National Geographic Society

National History Museum (Nairobi)

National Institute of Environmental

Health Sciences

National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Medal of Honor

National Park Service

National Renewable Energy

Laboratory

National Resources Defense Council

National Science Foundation

National Security Agency

National Sleep Foundation

Native Americans

natural gas

Natural History Museum (London)

Natural Resources Defense Council

natural selection

nature, God vs.

Nature Conservancy

Nelson, Aaron P.

Netherlands

network neutrality

neurons

information processing by

regeneration of

neuroscience

neurotransmitters

Nevada

New Orleans

Newton, Isaac

New York

New York Times

nicotine addiction. See addiction nitrogen oxide

Nobel laureates

North Dakota

North Korea

Novalis

NRC. See Nuclear Regulatory

Commission

NREL. See National Renewable

Energy Laboratory

NSA. See National Security Agency Nuclear Energy Institute

nuclear fusion

nuclear power

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

nuclear weapons

nutrition

Oak Ridge Associated Universities

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

obesity

oceans

See also sea levels

Earle, Sylvia and

Of Pandas and People (textbook)

oil

Olduvai Gorge

Omidyar, Pierre

open-source model

Orentzle, Richard

organ transplants

Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle

ORNL. See Oak Ridge National

Laboratory

Oryx and Crake (Atwood)

overeating

Ozawa (Japanese politician)

pancreas

Parkinson’s disease

parthenogenesis

particle accelerators

particle physics

Pasteur, Louis

patents

patient-specific cells

PCs. See personal computers pebble-bed reactors

Pennsylvania. See Dover School

Board case

Penrose, Roger

personal computers

Peterson, Larry

pets, cloning of

PET scans

Pew Internet Project

pharmaceutical companies

phishing

photonics

photoreceptors

photovoltaic generators

physics

revolutionary change in

string theory

See also quantum mechanics pigs

pilli

Pinker, Steven

placenta

Planck, Max

PlanetLab Consortium

planktonlike creatures

plants, cloning and

plutonium

Pober, Leon

podcasts

poetry

Poincaré, Jules Henri

poker

polar ice

politics energy policy and

environmental policy and

Polkinghorne, John

poplar trees, ethanol from

poppies

positron emission tomography. See

PET scans power. See energy; specific sources POWER Magazine

precision grip

precursor cells

prefrontal cortex

Prey (Crichton)

procedural memory

Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences

Prozac

pump technology

punch cards

purse seine tuna boats

Pygmies

quantitative (cordance) electroencephalography

(QEEG)

quantum computers

quantum mechanics computing and

cosmology and

quantum simulators

quantum teleportation

qubits

Quoogle

race horses

radio waves

Raman, Varadaraja V.

Randall, Lisa

RAND Corporation

rapid eye movement. See REM sleep reading problems

Reagan, Ronald

reality

reasoning

recombinant DNA technology. See

DNA cloning recycling of nuclear waste

Reeve, Christopher

Regeneration Project

relativity theory

religion

creationism and

embryonic stem cell research and

environmentalism and

science and

REM sleep

renewable energy. See alternative energies reproductive cloning

Resource Recovery Association

reward system, brain and

rheumatoid arthritis

robots

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Roman Catholicism

root cells

Roslin Institute

Rubin, Vera

Ruckelshaus, William D.

Russian Federal Space Agency

Rutan, Burt

Sacks, Oliver

Sadoulet, Bernard

safety issues nanotechnology and

nuclear power and

space travel and

See also security

St. Olaf College

Samsung

Sandoz Pharmaceuticals

Sargasso Sea

Sasquatch

satellite industry

Saturn V (spacecraft)

Scadden, David T.

Scaled Composites

Schaller, George

Schenck, Carlos

Schiavo, Terri

Schindler, Oskar

schizophrenia

Schmidt, David P.

school boards

Schrödinger, Erwin

Schrödinger’s cat

Science (journal)

science, religion and

Science Museum of Minnesota

scientific method

scleroderma

Scopes, John

Scopes trial (1925)

sea levels

sea mounts

search engines

seawalls

Second Chance (cloned bull)

security

Internet and

quantum computers and

seizures, music and

self-assembly

Sellafield

sequestration

Serling, Rod

serotonin

sex hormones

shower curtains, billowing of

Sign of the Four, The (Doyle)

silicon chips

Silicon Valley

silver ions

Sinclair

Sivan, Uri

Skype

Slaymaker, Wes

sleep

sleep deprivation

Smalley, Richard

“smart dust,”

smart ink

Smith, Norman

Smolin, Lee

Snuppy (cloned dog)

Soane, David

Society of Toxicology

solar energy

Sorcerer II (yacht)

South Africa

South Dakota

Soviet Union

soybeans

space (dimension)

Space Adventures

space elevators

Space Exploration Technologies

(SpaceX)

space hotels

SpaceShipOne (spacecraft)

space shuttle

space stations

space tourism

space travel and exploration

by-products of

carbon nanotubes and

entrepreneurs and

Mars and

private sector and

space elevators

Spain

Spearville Wind Energy Facility

spinal-cord injuries

spleen cells

“spooky action at a distance,”

sprays

SQUID

Stanford University

Star Trek (TV series)

State Department, U.S.

stem cells

amniotic

embryonic

Steuerwalt, Matt

Stickgold, Robert

stigmatization, addiction and

Stormer, Horst

Strauss, Lewis

stress

string theory

stroke victims

subatomic particles

submarines

substance abuse. See addiction successive contrast

sugar cane

sulfur dioxide

sunlight, ocean life and

superconducting quantum interference device

supersymmetry

Supreme Court, U.S.

sushi

switchgrass

synapses

Syngenta

Tang

tax subsidies

T-cells

telephone companies

teleportation

telescopes

temperature

global warming projection

oceans increase in temporal lobes

Tennessee

Teresa, Mother

terrorism

Texas

Texas A&M

theory of everything

therapeutic cloning

This-Benckhard, Hervé

Three Mile Island

Tidwell, Mike

time

tissue culture propagation

Tokamak fusion reactor

toolmaking

transistors

transplantation amniotic stem cells

organs

trawling

trees, ethanol from

TriBeCa Film Festival (N.Y.C.)

truth, religious vs. scientific

Tumlinson, Rick

turbine technology

Turner, John

Turner, Michael

Twain, Mark

type 1 diabetes

United Kingdom. See Great Britain United Nations

universe dimensions of

quantum computers and

religious perspective of

timeline of

See also cosmology

University of California, Los Angeles

University of Minnesota

University of Washington

University of Wisconsin

UNIX (operating system)

uranium

Van Heerden, Ivor

Velcro

Venter, J. Craig

venture capitalists

video games, addiction to

video-sharing Web sites

Virgin Galactic (tourist venture)

virusesgene therapy and

nanotechnology and

xenotransplantation and

vitamins

Volkow, Nora

Walker, Matthew

Waring, Clive

Washington (state)

waste recycling, nuclear

Watson, James

Web sites. See World Wide Web Weinberg, Steven

wetlands

Whitesides, George

Wilczek, Frank

Wild Chimpanzees (film)

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy

Probe

Williams, Robin

willow trees, ethanol from

Wilmut, Ian

wimps (weakly interacting massive particles)

Windows (operating system)

wind power

Spearville Wind Energy Facility

Windustry

Winscale

WMAP women brain function and

scientific field studies and

World Wide Web

World Wildlife Fund

Wozniak, Steve

Wright brothers

Wu, Tim

Xcel Energy

xenotransplantation

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

X-rays

Yale University

Yeti

YouTube

Yucca Mountain

Zare, Richard

Zare, Susan

zero-G planes

Zittrain, Jonathan

Zoloth, Laurie

Zurich Research Laboratory (IBM)

Zwanzig, Carl

Zwicky, Fritz

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