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Karina Hamalainen • March 4, 2008
It’s a catchy title, isn’t it? Somewhere between that and the full-page advertisement in the New Scientist, I was persuaded to buy the book How to Fossilize your Hamster: And […]
Stuart Fox • March 3, 2008
Bacteria get a bad rap. Sure, the bubonic plague and cholera have killed untold millions of people, but a lot of other bugs do things we appreciate. They keep our […]
Stuart Fox • March 3, 2008
- Asks Paul in New York, NY
Stuart Fox • February 29, 2008
We’ve come a long way from Jack Palance dragging a giant Oscar with his teeth. As the opening sequence of Sunday’s Oscars showed, visual effects are now as important to […]
Adam T. Hadhazy • January 28, 2008
– Asks BJ from Santa Monica, California
Jessie Jiang • January 25, 2008
The discovery of how pheromones work in mice may speed up human stroke recovery.
Victoria Stern • January 21, 2008
- Asks Amanda from Philadelphia
Rachel Mahan • January 11, 2008
Tricking males into mating with other males may fight invasive fish.
Why does my normal body temperature always seem to be lower than 98.6 degrees? By how much do normal human body temperatures vary?
Jessie Jiang • January 2, 2008
- Asks Lev from Detroit, MI
Eric R. Olson • December 21, 2007
It would surprise most people to learn that an exploding cell phone could pack enough of a wallop to kill them. A severe burn—maybe, but it’s hard to imagine an […]
Katherine Tweed • December 19, 2007
After more than 20 years, researchers make a key discovery about red tide toxins, with some surprising applications.
Eric R. Olson • December 17, 2007
The cell–the most fundamental unit of life–could one day be as easily programmable as a computer, according to Mark Weiss, professor of electrical engineering and molecular biology at Princeton University. […]
Monica Heger • December 16, 2007
Fertilizing the ocean may not slow down global warming. The controversial process of dumping urea or iron into the ocean to induce an algae bloom in order to remove CO2 […]
Natalie Peretsman • December 14, 2007
A new type of laser scan could detect cancer before it spreads too far.
Stuart Fox • December 13, 2007
(meets Abbott and Costello and the Wolfman)