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Snow White

August 8, 2006

A listener asks: Why is snow white, when water and ice are clear?

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Gaming Information

August 7, 2006

Video games are chock full of information--story lines, character traits, and maps, to name a few. …

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Fiber Roundup

August 4, 2006

A whole new way of seeing looks a lot like a Star Trek episode.

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Podcast

August 4, 2006

An evolutionary reason for morning sickness, fibers that act as eyes, a South American culture that …

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Pregnancy Sickness

August 3, 2006

Mothers-to-be take heart: Morning sickness may have a good reason for existing.

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Darwin’s Finches

August 2, 2006

The finches that Darwin discovered in the Galapagos are still yielding new data on evolution.

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Wal-Mart Effect

August 1, 2006

Do Wal-Marts help the economy, or hurt it? The debate continues with this new research.

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Backs to the Future

July 31, 2006

A South American culture has the future behind it and the past ahead.

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Acid Ocean Roundup

July 28, 2006

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is working its way into the oceans.

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Podcast

July 28, 2006

A computer counselor for teenage girls, how apples help cells, what came before the Big Bang, carbon …

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Big Bounce

July 27, 2006

Scientists have a new hypothesis about what might have come before the Big Bang.

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Apple Protection

July 26, 2006

Do apples really help keep doctors away?

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