Science news articles about 'wizard'

  • Worst beats best: Wizards top Cavaliers 109-101

    For the first time all season, the Washington Wizards fielded a starting lineup resembling the one they envisioned when training camp opened last fall.
  • Off to see 'The Wizard' for free at Netflix Oct. 3

    (AP) -- Anyone with a computer and Internet connection can be off to see "The Wizard of Oz" for free next month, courtesy of Netflix Inc.'s movie-streaming service.
  • Video: "The Wizard of Oz" Turns 70

    Seventy years after "The Wizard of Oz" rose to fame, the film is still maintaining its popularity among children. Kelly Wallace reports.
  • AP Impact: Hurricane season outlooks of little use

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Each April, weather wizard William Gray emerges from his burrow deep in the Rocky Mountains to offer his forecast for the six-month hurricane season that starts June 1. And the ...
  • Next space tourist spending bulk of fortune to fly

    ... he'll be spending the bulk of his fortune to rocket into orbit this fall. Richard Garriott, a computer game wizard, will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station....
  • Techno wizard also pens best-selling science fiction

    If you saw Neal Stephenson on the street, you might think he's just another geeky Seattle guy with a particularly impressive goatee.
  • Yahoo opens its doors to hackers

    ... " was as much a symbol of Yahoo rising from the ashes of a burned-out courtship with US technology colossus Microsoft as it was a chance for software wizards to work their magic on Yahoo's platform.
  • Cosmic Log: Visualizing politics

    Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Computer wizards are serving up a whole new set of tools for visualizing political trends — and starting conversations.
  • Latest space tourist gets his money's worth

    The world's latest space tourist, a computer game wizard and astronaut's son who paid $30 million to fly to the space station, said Monday from orbit that he's gotten his money's worth.
  • Wizard in world of search

    If Microsoft has to climb over or through Yahoo to get to Google in the Internet search business, there are few people better positioned than Qi Lu to lead the way. Named this month as president of ...
  • Survive Christmas at the In-Laws

    ... in someone else's living room, unable to get to the remote control, and nothing but "The Wizard of Oz" on the TV.  Not that that could be bad (the movie), we're just saying.A good majority of us end ...
  • Blurring the lines between magic and science: Berkeley researchers create an 'invisibility cloak'

    ... noted the similarities between advanced technology and magic. This summer on the big screen, the young wizard Harry Potter will once again don his magic invisibility cloak and disappear. Meanwhile, ...
  • New Steps Towards A Real Invisibility Cloak

    ... they've designed invisibility cloaks that work in the visible-light spectrum. OK, so they're not big enough to cover a budding young wizard sneaking around at night, but hey, it's a step. read more
  • Cosmic Log: Nano-wizard takes the prize

    Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: What do tiny circuits, medical tests and a $500,000 prize have in common? They all fall into the domain of one of the world's top nanotech researchers.
  • Three Cool Multiplication Tricks You Can Do In Your Head

    Even though you're already the mathematical Wizard of Oz, you can still benefit from the Wow factor of hoisting a new curtain of number tricks to impress your friends and intimidate your enemies. Here ...

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