TODAY'S SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS:

Mommy, Daddy, And ...?

As many as 15 babies have been born using an experimental and controversial fertility procedure that produces infants bearing the genes of three adults. Plus:

- Climbers on Mt. Everest have found artifacts from the ill-fated Mallory-Irvine expedition of 1924.

- Mars will outshine the brightest star in the sky in late May.

- The acoustics of baseball -- the difference between "crack" and "thunk."

- "Tractor beam, Scotty" -- British scientists' helical laser beam can grab and move objects.

-- Anonymous, May 08, 2001