The God Theory: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All.
THE GOD THEORY: Universes, Zero-Point Fields, and What's Behind It All by Bernard Haisch. San Francisco, CA: Weiser Books, 2006. 157 pages. Hardcover; $21.95. ISBN: 1578633745. Bernard Haisch has spent most of his career in astrophysics working at Lockheed-Martin in the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo...

Early on, their eyes are on the skies; Astronomy club links families to space, stars.
Byline: Ashley Bishop PAXTON - Megan Johnston is a soft-spoken 11-year-old. But her eyes light up with excitement when she's discussing her favorite subject: space. "When I was little, I saw a book about the planets in the library and I thought it looked really...

Stargazing; Aldrich Astronomical Society hooked on space.
Byline: Pamela H. Sacks By the time Josh Ponce de Leon was 10, he had developed a real curiosity about the night sky. His father, Steve Ponce de Leon, took matters in hand and called the Aldrich Astronomical Society - it so happened at just...

Geared for lift-off?
Byline: Atul Sethi Recently, when Nasa director Mike Griffin was asked about his vision for space exploration, he summed it up by saying: "One day - I don't know when, but one day, there will be more humans living off the Earth than on it." That day...

Students can witness historical scientific milestones.
Teachers' efforts to increase the number of students interested in science, technology, engineering and math careers received a boost from NBC News this spring with the release of a comprehensive collection of science and technology videos spanning the greatest scientific milestones of our era and the latest scientific discoveries....

In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S.
On July 21, at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, members of the European astronomy community participated in a discussion about why their space program has failed to engage public interest in a manner comparable to programs in the United States. Organized by Dirk Lorenzen, a physicist...

Universe.
Universe Heather Couper Thunder Bay Press 5880 Oberlin Drive, San Diego, CA 92121-4794 1592236995 $34.95 www.thunderbaybooks.com Over 250 images, many beamed from the Hubble and recent space missions, accompanies a science survey text by Heather Couper, an expert on...

IBM joins fight against bird flu.
BANGALORE: Avian flu may not have hit the American shores yet but it is undoubtedly engaging the interest of Big Blue (IBM). IBM's Zurich Research Centre is working jointly with the likes of the Scripps Institute(founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps) to understand and work...

Celestial Explorations.
Byline: Debina Chattopadhyay Though the study of the atmosphere and space is one of the oldest sciences, man has never ceased to be curious about stellar and galactic properties and activities. Spearheaded by the US and the USSR, astronomical research has always been an important area of...

Introduction: the historical background.
Churches, erected as the centers of missions founded by Spanish priests to Christianize native populations from California to Texas, have fascinated generations of Anglo-Americans. The attraction has resulted in numerous books and articles of serious scholarship by researchers and an uncountable number of popular articles by journalists. The foci...