I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but I couldn’t decide how to do it. Scientific accuracy in sci-fi is something I thought I’d talk about more in the Technology discussions, (The latest on Robotics is here!) but it hasn’t really worked out that way. So instead, it gets its own post. …
Welcome to Science Saturday everyone. Here’s what happened this week: ScienceDaily: Methane Vents Scientists studying plumes of bubbles that rise from the seafloor off of the coast of Washington State have discovered that the vents follow a geologic fault line. Continuing to study the vents, of which there are as many as 17,000, researchers may …
Querying is hard. Much harder than I thought it would be, in fact. There are a lot of materials to give prospective agents: A query letter, a synopsis, the first few chapters of a manuscript, and all of these have to be polished to perfection. Then, when you have all of these ready to go, …
Welcome back to Science Saturday everyone. Here’s what happened in the world of science this week: Science Magazine: 5G Could Impact Weather Forecasting The FCC just auctioned off a spectrum of radio frequency to be used for 5G communication. The problem is that communications traffic in one segment of this spectrum could compromise weather satellites’ …
The development of robots has been a game-changer across a wide variety of industries. But before robots ever became an integral part of our world, they were imagined by sci-fi writers to be incredibly sophisticated machines often equipped with artificial intelligence (Click here for the previous Technology Discussion on AI). In this technology discussion, we’ll …
Hello everyone. There will be no science Saturday today. I put all my available time this week into Deathless, so all three of the posts I had scheduled for this week got put on hold. Expect some cool stuff next week though. Speaking of Deathless though, I have some big news: It’s finished. Like, completely …
Welcome to this week’s Science Saturday everyone. Let’s jump right in and see what happened this week: ScienceDaily: Spider silk could be used as robot muscles. Researchers working with spider silk, which is already known to have an exteremely high tensile strength, have found that the silk produces a strong twisting motion when exposed to …
Writing time is a fragile thing for me. I often have the attention span of a goldfish, so any small distraction is liable to turn a solid chunk of time that I’ve set aside for writing into something else entirely. I hesitate to say “wasted time,” but if we’re being honest, that’s often what it …