Nov 21 2010

Contaminated Seafood Sneaking Past Security

Keeping seafood safe for consumers requires testing imports for unapproved drugs. Should buyers be given the information about the origins of their seafood and make the call themselves?

Oct 07 2010

Uncovering the Secrets of the Greatest Holes on Earth

Tag: Everyday Science,Geology,Geophysics,Mining,Volcanic EruptionsMichael Reilly @ 5:31 pm
From volcanoes to nuclear weapons tests and sinkholes, researchers who study giant collapse structures hope to understand what happens when Earth caves in.

Oct 01 2010

Air Pollution Strongly Linked to Diabetes

Tag: Everyday Science,Maps,PollutionMichael Reilly @ 6:15 pm
Tiny particles of air pollution may be an important factor in America's worsening diabetes epidemic.

Sep 28 2010

India Facing Crop Shortage as Pollinators Disappear

Bees and other pollinators in India are dwindling, raising concern that some food crops could become scarce.

Sep 23 2010

Searching for the World’s Deepest Cave

Tag: Anthropology,Everyday Science,Scientific DiscoveriesMichael Reilly @ 2:50 am
A daring, death-defying race to find the planet's deepest hole is chronicled in a gripping new book.

Sep 22 2010

Want to Check Your Air Pollution? There’s an App for That

Tag: Everyday Science,Pollution,Scientific DiscoveriesMichael Reilly @ 2:18 am
New software turns your smartphone into a device for monitoring air pollution.

Sep 15 2010

How Can Lightning Kill?

Tag: Everyday Science,LightningJulienne Gage @ 8:12 pm
A lightening survivor and a storm chaser explain what it's like to get zapped -- and how to avoid it.

Sep 09 2010

Save Me, Seymour! Flytraps, Carnivorous Plants Dwindling Across U.S.

Tag: Biodiversity,Everyday Science,Plants,WildfiresMichael Reilly @ 2:49 am
Habitat loss, wildfire suppression, and poaching are combining to push many species to the brink of extinction, despite the fact that science knows very little about them.

Aug 25 2010

How Much Did Darwin Get Wrong?

Tag: Animal Evolution,Animal Science,Everyday Science,EvolutionMichael Reilly @ 8:59 pm
A new study argues that evolution is a bit more complex than Charles Darwin first realized. But should we really say he was "wrong"?

Aug 17 2010

Report: Nearly 80 Percent of Spilled Oil Still Threatens Gulf

The vast majority of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a report released yesterday. This is in direct contradiction to previous government findings that argued only a quarter of the oil ...

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