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Shelley DuBois • December 17, 2008
Researchers use lab rats to examine the role of choice in drug-seeking behavior.
Carina Storrs • December 16, 2008
Clarinet with whale songs: click to listen Distorted clarinet riffs filled the air. Then howls, hauntingly low and distant, syncopated by short squeals accompanied them. The duet was no experimental […]
Lindsey Konkel • December 15, 2008
Asks Scott from Nyack, NY
Lynne Peeples • December 12, 2008
A New York City company is converting the East River’s tidal currents into electricity.
Jonathan Teyan • December 11, 2008
Transorbital lobotomy. A sort of clinical-sounding affair that amounted to nothing more than the insertion of a couple of ice picks into a hapless patient’s brain by way of the […]
Rachael Rettner • December 10, 2008
Improving this enzyme’s function decreases tissue damage during a heart attack and could even help with hangovers.
Shelley DuBois • December 9, 2008
Nestled in two trapezoids on the second tier of the food pyramid, dairy and red meat are often lauded as sources of calcium and protein but linked to cancer and […]
Frederik Joelving • December 8, 2008
Asks Kim from Cincinnati, Ohio
Genevra Pittman • December 5, 2008
The Wii gaming system goes beyond playtime as a rehab tool for all ages.
Frederik Joelving • December 3, 2008
At first glance – or puff – marijuana might seem like a less-than-ideal candidate for boosting memory. But if you’re an aging lab rat at the Ohio State University department […]
Lindsey Konkel • December 3, 2008
Eavesdropping plants drop hints about ecosystem health.
Robert Goodier • December 2, 2008
Biofilms. They’re like Frankenstein’s monster in microscopic form. They are living, heaving, powerful patchworks of microscopic creatures that have learned to seize the advantage of numbers. When individual, free-wheeling microbes […]
Al Gore’s movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ says sea levels could rise up to 20 feet. Is this true?
Rachael Rettner • December 1, 2008
Asks Steve from Florida
Jonathan Teyan • November 28, 2008
An Oklahoma scientist chases down the secrets of Alaskan sled dog endurance.
Allison Bond • November 26, 2008
There are two kinds of people: those who think that physics’ biggest experiment, the Large Hadron Collider, is a waste of money, and those who don’t. OK, that might be […]