Disease Roundup
Failure to raise enough funds to fight malaria, and a bioengineered virus for treating brain cancer.
Morphing Planes
NASA's Morphing Project is working on planes that can adapt to changing flight conditions.
Antibacterial Pollution
The antibacterial compound Triclosan converts into a dioxin, which is toxic to plants and animals.
Firefly Flashes
Male fireflies that are better able to reproduce have longer flashes, and females can tell.
Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2 is doing experiments on how rising carbon dioxide levels affect pollution.
Criminal Birds
Crows steal food differently depending on whether the victim is a relative, and peafowl are messing …
Roadside Paleontology
A site just off a Denver highway is yielding fossilized leaves from 64 million years ago.
Peptide Painkillers
Attaching a sugar to a peptide forms a painkiller twice as powerful as morphine.
Dryer Sheets
How do dryer sheets work? (Releases ingredients that neutralize static charge)
Cloned Pigs
Cloned pigs differ from one another as much as pigs bred conventionally do.
Coffee Roundup
Cheap coffee is bad for environment; and researchers can track household wastewater by looking for …
Cell Phone Traffic
Using cell phone signals to monitor traffic flow in smaller cities