Science Update

Roadside Paleontology

May 29, 2003

A site just off a Denver highway is yielding fossilized leaves from 64 million years ago.

May 28, 2003

Attaching a sugar to a peptide forms a painkiller twice as powerful as morphine.

May 26, 2003

Cloned pigs differ from one another as much as pigs bred conventionally do.

May 22, 2003

Using cell phone signals to monitor traffic flow in smaller cities

May 21, 2003

Why did the people of Crow Canyon abandon their homes? (because they used them in a migratory …

May 19, 2003

Replanting cultivated seed of natural grasses best for keeping out invaders on disturbed land

May 14, 2003

Developing a technique to deliver drugs to the eye by adding drug-filled capsules to temporary …

May 12, 2003

A gene that makes it possible for cancer to spread (metastasize)

May 8, 2003

A detector for particles called muons could be used to identify smuggled nuclear material.

May 7, 2003

People attribute lies to the situation or personality of the liar, depending on who told the lie.