Space

The Science Times this week appears to be the Special Coturnix Issue, at least judging from the titles in my RSS reader-- a huge stack of articles about sleep and biological clocks. Bora must be thrilled. Mixed in there, though, are two articles about NASA. One bears the dramatic headline "NASA Faces House Hearings on Air Safety," while the other is a detailed profile of the astronauts for the next Shuttle mission. The first one turns out to be about the "aeronautics" rather than "space" part of NASA-- it's about a survey of pilots about safety issues in air travel-- but the combination is…