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Patterned Ground

March 12, 2003

The cycle of freezing and thawing of soil arranges rocks in the Arctic into neat patterns.

March 11, 2003

Is it safer to drive on the left or the right side? (It doesn't matter.)

March 10, 2003

Using the shell of the Ebola virus to deliver gene therapy

March 7, 2003

Boy babies complicate deliveries, dads don't babytalk as well as moms, and men tend to blame outside …

March 6, 2003

Why doesn't our moon have a name? (It does: Luna. But we use the Germanic name, Moon.)

March 5, 2003

Genes influence whether mitochondria burn calories for work or for warmth.

March 4, 2003

Can you get rabbit fever from eating rabbits? (Yes, you can get tularemia.)

March 3, 2003

Measuring the earth's gravity from an airplane can pinpoint diamond mines.

February 28, 2003

Drugs from sea sponges, wound-healing oxygen and a sunscreen made from white tea extract

February 27, 2003

An environmentally nontoxic rocket fuel made from candle wax (paraffin).