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Scientific American
November 2007
Charles Choi |
Whatever happened to...? Cosmic radiation... Smoking and genes... Shrubs 1, Grasses 0... Corona heat... etc.   |
Popular Mechanics
January 5, 2010
Adam Hadhazy |
10 Badass Beetles and the Technology They Inspire With so many beetles in a wide range of environments, it's no surprise that some have evolved impressive traits, including fantastic maneuverability, the ability to breathe underwater and superpowerful immune systems. |
Geotimes
October 2007
Moran & Backman |
The Arctic Ocean: So Much We Still Don't Know In 2004, the Arctic Coring Expedition team took three ships to the Arctic to drill a core near the Lomonosov Ridge. The team's results are teaching us more than we ever knew about the past 65 million years in the Arctic. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away. |
Science News
July 24, 2004
Janet Raloff |
Seeing Red and Finding Fraudulent Fish Marine biology students find most red snapper sold at stores isn't the real McCoy. The findings suggest that true red-snapper stocks might have been so depleted that fleets are now surreptitiously substituting other species for this high-value reef fish. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Sara Pratt |
Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Cassandra Willyard |
A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice. |
National Defense
August 2008
Matthew Rusling |
Coast Guard Unprepared for Climate Change in Arctic The Coast Guard's fleet of only two working icebreakers is not suited to deal with the rapidly changing shifts in a region of rising importance. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2000 |
Science: Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Is there a Fountain of Youth? Will we cure cancer? Can we achieve immortality? Can we create artificial life? Where is the soul? Is the speed of light the ultimate speed limit? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we travel through time? |
Wired
May 2004
Charles C. Mann |
The Bluewater Revolution The oceans of the world are being overfished. The solution: roaming robots that bring fish farming to the open seas. Aquaculture moves into deeper water. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
Wired
January 18, 2008
Geoffrey Gagnon |
Foreigners Keep Out! High Tech Mapping Starts to Redefine International Borders Countries vie to claim control of different regions in the North Pole. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Ocean acidification threat to UK coral reefs The latest studies on ocean acidification indicate that it's not just tropical corals that are under threat from ocean acidification, but cold water corals too. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Megan Sever |
From Hot to Cold in the Arctic For the first time, scientists have recovered direct evidence of what life in the Arctic has been like for the past 56 million years. A new 400-meter-long sediment core is revealing that all in the Arctic has not always been as it seems. |
Science News
March 6, 2004
Alexandra Goho |
Fishy Alpha Males Lab experiments suggest that fish genetically modified to grow big fast could outcompete and thus threaten native fish in the wild. |
Salon.com
February 13, 2001
Arthur Allen |
Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly... |
Finefishing Saltwater
Louis Bignami |
Saving Salar Atlantic Salmon need our help |
Fast Company
March 2006
Ramez Naam |
The Body: Bulletproof Gene therapy is on its way - and it's coming fast. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley |
