Technology Invention Barring the movie pirates Schemes to prevent movie piracy are released almost as often as new movies. The latest idea is to manipulate cinema projectors so that a movie cannot be filmed from the stalls using high-definition camcorders. Electronic projectors use red, green and blue lasers to beam a colour image onto the big screen. … 51¶¯Âþ
A vote for science EUROPE lives in fear of decline. It is not just about the current economic woes – unemployment stuck at high levels in France and Germany and sluggish growth in many countries. But also the threat that China and India will take away ever more jobs. It is not hard to conjure up a bleak future … Opinion
Histories: Mary through the looking glass On 31 August1869, Mary Ward and her husband weretravellingalonga quiet Irish road in a steam-driven car when suddenly it jolted, pitching Mary underone of its heavy iron wheels. She died almost instantly in what many believe was the first fatal automobile accident. But if Mary's death was extraordinary, so was her life. When other women … Features
The Worlds of Herman Kahn by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi PREDICTIONS of a world without food kept people awake a century ago. Half a century later, the nightmare du jour was global thermonuclear war – a spectre created by the US's detonation of a hydrogen bomb in 1952, and the Soviet Union's test the next year. Soon, both superpowers possessed weapons a thousand times more … Books & Arts
Feedback Spiritual toughness test THERE have been some fairly wacky experiments done to get an empirical handle on religion, from photographing seances to the electrically wired "God helmet" that makes people swear they feel the presence of the Almighty. But among the oddest is a series funded by the Pennsylvania-based Templeton Foundation at Baroness Susan Greenfield's … Regulars