Cooking Spray
How can companies claim that cooking sprays are “fat-free” if the first ingredient is oil?
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Snails & Mosquitoes
In Florida, invasive, disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes are breeding in the shells of an invasive …
Safer Cookstoves
Cleaner cookstoves could save millions of lives and slow global warming.
Arctic Pioneers
Like the pioneers of the American West, the birds that are now settling the Arctic frontier in …
Shark Isotopes
Researchers are testing better ways to find out what sharks eat.
Artificial Dye Safety
Some people argue that food dyes are harmful to human health, but do decades of safety research back …
Condor Culture
Captive-bred California Condors lack role models to show them how to survive in the wild. But …
Baby Tooth Cavities
Baby teeth fall out eventually. But that doesn't mean cavities in baby teeth should be ignored.
Reviving Extinct Species
Using frozen DNA, researchers have created early-stage embryos of an extinct frog.
Metal in Microwaves
If metal isn’t supposed to go in microwave ovens, why do some of them have metal racks?