With a new presidential administration and a new Congress taking office in January, advocates from all perspectives are looking at opportunities to translate a mandate for "change" into specific national policy reforms. Watch your step as the avalanche ...
Don’t be too quick to judge the next time someone you know skips a shower—he or she may actually be clearing the air. The dangerous pollutant ozone, it turns out, is destroyed by hair and body oils, an oddity revealed when researchers at Missouri ...
A recent issue of National Geographic featured a compelling story on the double-barreled threat facing western states: rapid population growth and climate change. "The American West was won by water management," proclaims the article. "What happens ...
The rivers are rising as spring arrives in the Rocky Mountain West. In the annual pattern that sustains the environment and much of the economy of this region, water generated from melting snow feeds the streams, soaks the soil, and is diverted into ...
Supercomputers are expensive, so investigators with lots of data and little budgets have turned to distributed computing: relying on free help from volunteers who download programs onto their home computers and run the software to analyze small chunks ...
The deeper we look into the genetic code, the more surprises we find. The first complete maps of the human genome turned up far fewer genes than expected (30,000 versus the anticipated 80,000 to 140,000). Then scientists found that so-called junk ...
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When a laser "scratches," dye microcapsules dissolve away.11.16.2007 The long-sought mechanism for a superior solar cell may now be at hand.11.16.2007 Anti-inflammatory, protector of astronaut eyes, and excrement of the gods11.15.2007 The nonstick pan ...
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