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History of fishing - Thursday, May 28th, 2009

A new study finds a surprising number of fish, birds and mammals in the oceans 100 and 1,000 years ago. Can this information help regulators slow the decline of important marine animals?



“No prob” sez life to crashing asteroids! - Thursday, May 21st, 2009

The “late heavy bombardment” burned out any life that was around 4 billion years ago — or not… Plenty of high temperature bacteria could have survived in deep rocks, says a new study.



Life during the “other” Big Bang! - Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Did the arrival of 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of space junk start the formation of organic molecules roughly 4 billion years ago? “Could be,” says a new study from Japan…



Electric eye learns from animal eye! - Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Lenses cannot project a perfect image on the flat back of a camera, so images are distorted at the edges. A revolutionary camera solves this problem by curving the light detector.



Measuring invading trees: New system tested in Hawaii - Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Hawaii is the world’s capital of biological invasions. A new airborne gadget measures how bad the situation has become; offers aid in fighting weedy trees.



Whale research: No killing required - Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Japan says it must kill hundreds of whales each year to do “research” on them; but science has plenty of ways to study whales without killing them. Digital-recording tags, whale songs, even whale scats, are the best ways to study these mysterious marine mammals.



Tree frog’s foot yields re-stickable glue! - Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Most adhesives can’t be reused. But a radical new design, based on the foot of frogs, lizards and insects, shows how engineers can learn from nature to make smarter materials.



Vitamin C: Could it cure cancer? - Thursday, September 13th, 2007

30 years ago, a legendary biochemist said vitamin C could cure cancer. Har, har, said the scientific establishment. Now a mouse study shows C fighting two cancers. Did brilliant scientist and peace activist Linus Pauling get it right?



GM Crops: How Hazardous? - Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Do GM crops work as advertised? Do they kill only pest insects? Do they keep their modified genes to themselves? Or are they a hazard to the environment? Read the GM crop 10-year checkup.



Bread for All: New Origin of Wheat! - Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Was wheat tamed in 200 years or less? New information on the origin of agriculture in the Middle East shows the process may have taken millennia…




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