A Head for Snoring
People with wide heads have a higher incidence of sleep apnea.
PCB-Busting Bug
Discovery of a soil bacterium that helps break down the pollutant PCB
Seeing Dark Matter
A dark matter object identified by gravitational lensing turns out to be a dim star.
Snake Vision
Studying snake heat-sensing for better artificial infrared sensors
Bone Engineering
Artificial bone that mimics real bone's microscopic structure
Sleeping After Eating
Why do you feel sleepy after eating a big meal? (The comfort unmasks underlying sleepiness.)
Olympics Earthquake
The mountains of Salt Lake City were shaped by powerful earthquakes in the past.
PNA Ladders
Using artificial DNA, called PNA, to imitate a step of photosynthesis
Designer Soot
Creating a chemical identity for soot (by designing a standard soot) to study it.
Water in Plants
Tracing how plants store water sheds light on desert ecology
Looks and Lou Gehrig’s
Because I physically look like my mother, (who had ALS), do I have a greater chance of getting the disease? (no, because genetics only account for …
Multitalented Vaccine
Vaccines that can protect against more than one strain of pathogen.
Icy-Cold Beverages
Why do some bottled beverages stored in the freezer a few minutes not get ice in them until they're opened? (they're supercooled-- removing the …
Lobster Sniffing
How a lobster uses his antennae to sniff the water around him.
Green Glowing Sensor
A glucose sensor made from green jellyfish protein could help monitor diabetes.
Quake Clusters
Mapping out a timeline of quakes shows that they tend to occur in clusters.
Dangerous Hail
Why don't you ever hear about people getting hurt by hail? (Chances of getting hit are low)
Fingerprints
Why do people have different fingerprints? (Combination of genes and environment)