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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.
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 […]