Robert Lemos

The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the pursuit of science. But that’s not quite true. Technically speaking, Sputnik was no more sophisticated than a cheap transmitter from Radio Shack attached to 120 pounds of batteries. It was the R-7 [...]

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Space industry executives lamented Wednesday that the United States will likely have to rely on other countries to send men, women and materials into space. The nation’s most visible launch vehicle, the space shuttle, will have its wings clipped in 2010, and current plans for a successor rocket to lift cargo and crew into orbit [...]

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The public will have to overcome its squeamishness about nuclear power, if current plans for space missions and manned outposts are ever to become reality, industry experts told attendees at the Space 2007 conference this week.
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Interference on wireless networks will likely get worse before it gets better. Sometimes, the most egregious offenders aren’t nearby residential networks or municipal Wi-Fi grids, but the myriad electronic devices in people’s homes. Poorly shielded microwave ovens leak radio waves tuned to 2.45 GHz, the resonant frequency of water. Many cordless phones operate in the [...]

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New Mexico’s legislature expands its jurisdiction, mulling whether to return the slighted celestial body to its planetary status every time it passes overhead.
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Few are mad enough about Vista to line up at midnight. Does that really matter for Microsoft? Robert Lemos reports from Salem, New Hampshire.
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A weird series of events yields Canada’s skill test — a four-part math problem to make lotteries and promotions legal. But don’t look for a real challenge.
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(And, no, the headline is not mine.)

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One Wired News correspondent cuts his connection to the cable company and doesn’t look back. Can the internet supply enough video programming to entertain a family of five?
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A new experiment sends a simple idea racing around the web, and tracks its progress. All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again.
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The space probe continues a complex series of maneuvers to slip into orbit around Mercury, flying by the sultry planet for the first of two times as part of its positioning.
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