EPIGENETICS: Is DNA our destiny? Rather than being passive carriers of our genes, many scientists now believe we are their guardians, actively influencing their outcomes. Epigenetics is now changing the way we think about identity, disease, and hereditary, painting a complete picture of how nature and nurture work together.  

 

 

MAYA: A marriage between 21st century technology and centuries-old archeological techniques has unearthed some truly awesome Maya findings. NASA maps now provide archeologists virtual road maps to thousand-year old structures, buried deep in the lush jungle that were obscured to us on the ground, but are discoverable from the sky. SPACE  

 

 

 

ELEVATOR: In 1945, Arthur C. Clarke wrote about an elevator that would travel between our earth and space. His fictive vision may indeed become a reality. At the NASA-sponsored X-cup, high school and college teams competed for a $150,000 prize to build prototypes for an elevator that will climb from the Earth to space.