Lynette M. Burrows discusses what The Andromeda Strain, Project Hail Mary, and extremophiles have in common. Survival is part of the answer.
Category: Science Fact
Blog posts by author Lynette M. Burrows with topics of the sciences, scientific method, and science research.
Real Life or Science Fiction
In my series, the Fellowship Dystopia, is an alternate history with speculative fiction. But science is catching up. Is it Real Life or Science Fiction?
Can Computers be Creative?
Ai-Da, an Artificial Intelligence machine, paints, writes, and gives presentations. Can a computer be creative?
Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain
In December 1967, fifty-three-year-old Louis Washkansky, a South African businessman, was dying. He had diabetes, chronic heart, kidney, and liver disease. By 1965, he had had three heart attacks and only about one third of his failing heart continued to function. All his heart doctors and tests confirmed he was dying. His doctors recommended he see… Continue reading Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain
The Second Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
Fifty-two years after Marie Curie, society believed women were unsuited for academic or scientific work. Maria Goeppert Mayer pursued her interests, anyway. And she became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Early Life Friedrich Goppert, and his wife Maria, lived in Kattowitz (now Katowice, Poland). Their only child, Maria Goeppert Mayer,… Continue reading The Second Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Physics