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Lindsey Konkel • January 9, 2009
With the Super Bowl approaching in a fury of clashing helmets and diving tackles, the National Football League hardly conjures up a sensitive image, but sensitive is what the NFL […]
Rachael Rettner • January 6, 2009
A recent study has sparked debate about the safety of artificial blood.
Dave Levitan • January 6, 2009
I’d already been sitting on the train for 18 hours when we pulled out of Denver, heading west. As we slowed to navigate the turns and tunnels of the Rockies, […]
Carina Storrs • January 5, 2009
The muscle-relaxing power of Botox has been wielded for so many different treatments—from frown lines and forehead wrinkles to neck spasms—that the drug has been touted as the aspirin of the 21st […]
Robert Goodier • January 2, 2009
Disease hunters target an ancient form of life.
Erik Ortlip • January 1, 2009
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, reported November 3 that they have created a “near perfect” solar panel. The solar panel has a special coating that captures 96.7 […]
Rachael Rettner • December 31, 2008
A new study finds that gut microbes may help protect against the onset of type 1 diabetes.
Carina Storrs • December 30, 2008
A glass of red wine or a few too many has been known to make morning-after memory a touch foggy. But, in moderation, this beverage may prove a potent adversary […]
Crystal Gammon • December 29, 2008
Traditional farming may stabilize Latin American coffee production.
Crystal Gammon • December 29, 2008
Mary Ellen Amato on shade-grown beans, Alta Gracia plantation and Jack's customers.
Lindsey Konkel • December 27, 2008
As short as they are enigmatic, the three-foot-tall “hobbit people” have provoked controversy since the 2003 discovery of their fossilized remains on the Indonesian island of Flores. No one knows […]
Allison Bond • December 26, 2008
An enzyme could offer clues to a new treatment for multiple sclerosis.
Shelley DuBois • December 24, 2008
Researchers find a possible treatment for African sleeping sickness in a drug usually used for organ transplant recipients.
Lynne Peeples • December 22, 2008
The U.S. Navy, environmental groups and the U.S. Supreme Court fight to balance national and whale security.
Dave Levitan • December 19, 2008
New centers aim to prevent nanotechnology environmental disasters.