Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2 is doing experiments on how rising carbon dioxide levels affect pollution.
Criminal Birds
Crows steal food differently depending on whether the victim is a relative, and peafowl are messing …
Roadside Paleontology
A site just off a Denver highway is yielding fossilized leaves from 64 million years ago.
Peptide Painkillers
Attaching a sugar to a peptide forms a painkiller twice as powerful as morphine.
Dryer Sheets
How do dryer sheets work? (Releases ingredients that neutralize static charge)
Cloned Pigs
Cloned pigs differ from one another as much as pigs bred conventionally do.
Coffee Roundup
Cheap coffee is bad for environment; and researchers can track household wastewater by looking for …
Cell Phone Traffic
Using cell phone signals to monitor traffic flow in smaller cities
Pueblo Migrations
Why did the people of Crow Canyon abandon their homes? (because they used them in a migratory …
Fire Hydrants
Why is it that if pipes inside your house can freeze during winter, that fire hydrants outside dont …
Replanting the Prairie
Replanting cultivated seed of natural grasses best for keeping out invaders on disturbed land
Tea Roundup
Tea can strengthen the immune system, and the green variety can help skin cells live longer