Archive for the ‘Science as Inquiry’ Category

Electric Cars: Meet the plug-in Hybrid - Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Hybrid cars and fuel cells increase auto efficiency and reduce pollution, but it’s a long struggle from the idea to the reality.

Dolly the clone: 10 years later - Thursday, May 31st, 2007

In 1997, Dolly was BIG NEWS. What did Dolly teach? Why did cloning attract so many oddballs, and what is the status of reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning? The Why Files honors Dolly with a 10-year lookback.

Alternative Energy: A Natural Solution? - Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Want to make alternative fuel? Need to get electricity directly from organic slop? Bacteria may have the perfect answer.

April’s Cool. Meet some Offbeat Science Projects - Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

How do dragonflies fly? How do bats catch insects hidden behind leaves? How do you make a temperature of 2 billion degrees? Why would anyone care?

Time for Time: What’s an Atomic Clock? - Thursday, August 25th, 2005

How does an atomic clock work? How does an atomic fountain work? Is there a limit to the accuracy of an atomic clock?

Snails in Tahiti - Thursday, April 15th, 2004

Old museum collection sheds light on vanishing land snails of Polynesia.

BigFoot Revealed: BigHoax! - Thursday, April 1st, 2004

Bigfoot film was a fraud, a hoax, says man who played bigfoot in 1967 film. Why do so many people believe in cryptozoology?

Nobel Prizefight - Thursday, October 23rd, 2003

Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology given to inventors of MRI machine — but were these guys really the inventors? Meet an unprecedented PR campaign to change the Nobel.

Nuclear Wizard Dies - Thursday, September 25th, 2003

Edward Teller helped invent the hydrogen bomb, then pushed missile defense. By public advocacy and secret research, he changed the 20th century.

Accidents: Why Do They Happen? - Thursday, September 11th, 2003

Manned space flight is expensive — and risky. What causes accidents? Was the destruction of space shuttle Columbia a result of NASA’s failed safety culture? Are accidents normal?

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