Michael Crichton News

A cell imaged with an optical microscope. The same cell imaged by allowing the cell to absorb UCNPs and then irradiating it with infrared light.

This week, Sara Nelson returns from Book Expo where the Michael Crichton tribute was moving, Lorrie Moore overcame her fear of public speaking, and Craig Ferguson stole the show.

If you haven't noticed there is a decidedly ghoulish side to my personality that comes out every so often.

In an Edge item in Saturday's Tribune Viewpoints page, the headline asked, 'What to believe?' The quandary, it seemed, stemmed from record-breaking temperatures on the West Coast versus news from an Australian paper that the ice in Antarctica is increasing rather than decreasing as recent American news sources have been saying.

Karen Dionne, author of Freezing Point, reveals what her late hero, Michael Crichton, taught her about crafting solid fiction.

Two new Michael Crichton novels, one of them unfinished, have been scheduled for release.

Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of technological thrillers like "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park" who died of cancer in November, left behind at least one finished novel and about one-third of a second.

Thriller writer Michael Crichton is back from the dead. Or, to be precise, two new novels have been found on the computer of the novelist who died from cancer last November and one is to be published before Christmas this year and the other in 2010.

In this Dec. 7, 2004 file photo, author Michael Crichton poses at The Peninsula Hotel in New York.

Charles R. Nesson of Harvard Law School Rupert Murdoch's Kindle Envy All Things Digital is reporting that Murdoch is interested in investing in his own version of the Kindle.

ER says goodbye to its fans tonight, marking an end to an era for NBC as it tries to adapt to a time where unscripted shows have rapidly taken over the TV circuit.

At a Kenmore store....I guess dryers and dishwashers are to blame for global warming now.

In 1994, a bestseller titled "The Hot Zone" sparked national interest in "superbugs," viruses and bacteria against which the human body is nearly defenseless and for which no effective treatment exist.

For as long as I can remember, science fiction has been associated with the nerdier segments of society.

A MY FISHER wants people to know that she's not the same girl who shot her lover's wife in the face 16 years ago.

In business, some say with pride that they swim with the sharks. Author Michael Crichton swam with sharks too.

MORE than 200,000 copies of a book by the creator of Sherlock Holmes will be distributed free in Edinburgh and four other British cities as part of a new reading campaign.

Michael Crichton supplied Hollywood with a series of hits, and he created the hospital drama E.R. , one of the most successful TV shows of the last two decades.

"There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon-conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of ...

Sometimes a single action can completely change the course of a person's life. In Randy Stine's case, it was posting on YouTube in 2007 clips from an almost 10-year-old Christmas concert featuring his college a ...