February 19 «Silicon Valley,» on PBS, tells the improbable tale of the team of maverick scientists who invented the microchip. (discovermagazine.com)
One maverick scientist says the answer may be as simple as dropping steel balls into the gushing well and that there's no harm in trying. (sciencemag.org)
IT DID N'T take long after Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996 for maverick scientists to start talking about cloning humans. (newscientist.com)