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New Radar May Help U.S. Draw the Line on Burrowing Under the Mexico Border
The U.S. Border Patrol plans to use ground-penetrating radar technology to spot illegal transborder tunnels

News 7/3/09
Space Show Takes Viewers on a Stellar Journey
The American Museum of Natural History's new movie focuses on what the stars have wrought
News 7/2/09
Plastic Not-So-Fantastic: How the Versatile Material Harms the Environment and Human Health
The chemical building blocks that make plastics so versatile are the same components that might harm people and the environment. Greener solutions, however, are becoming available
News 7/1/09
DNA Sudoku
Researchers get help from a venerable number theory and a popular puzzle game to solve genetic medical mysteries
News 7/1/09
Band of Bots Don't Play Musical Instruments--They Are the Instruments
Michael Hearst of the band One Ring Zero records his next solo album with a little help from the LemurBots

News 7/1/09
Astronomers Size Up a Candidate for Midsize Black Hole
An object hundreds or thousands of times the mass of the sun would represent an elusive class of black hole

News 6/30/09
Scientists Flesh Out Fossilized Tissues from Mummified Dinosaur
Mineralized skin samples suggest that the plant-eating hadrosaur may have been larger and faster than thought

News 6/26/09
A Family Tree, a Rare Cancer, and a Hunt for its Cause
A team of scientists identifies a genetic clue to a rare and aggressive lung cancer in children

News 6/25/09
Biofuel Showdown: Should Domestic Ethanol Producers Pay for Deforestation Abroad?
The biofuel lobby will win big by delaying rules on "indirect land-use change" for six years, but the National Academy of Sciences may now study the issue

News 6/25/09
Car Exhaust Associated With Premature Births in Southern California
Mothers living near freeways and congested roads are more likely to give birth to premature babies and suffer from preeclampsia

News 6/24/09
Heart Beat: Music May Help Keep Your Cardiovascular System in Tune
Could a regular dose of Pavarotti or Queen do your body good?

News 6/23/09
Low Brainer: Ancient Skull Shows Early Primates Didn't Need Big Brains
A 54-million-year-old fossil suggests that certain early primate activities did not necessarily trigger the explosion in brain size

News 6/23/09
Weed-Whacking Herbicide Proves Deadly to Human Cells
Used in gardens, farms, and parks around the world, the weed killer Roundup contains an ingredient that can suffocate human cells in a laboratory, researchers say

News 6/19/09
Why Aren't More Women Tenured Science Professors?
A new government study surveyed top-tier research universities to see how women were faring in the largely male-dominated fields of math and science

News 6/19/09
Following the Money
Where do the billions in global health funds come from, and where do they go?

News 6/18/09
Clean Diesel Comes of Age
A new study shows that diesel trucks and buses are spewing far less soot and smog into the air than they did just a few years ago

News 6/18/09
Subsidized Fertilizer: The Answer to Africa's Food Crisis?
Heavy use of fertilizers causes environmental problems in the U.S. and China, but a global team of scientists is prescribing more use of fertilizers for sub-Saharan Africa

News 6/17/09
Global Warming Impacts In Every Corner of the United States
White House report calls for response to wide-reaching effects of climate change

News 6/16/09
FBI Sting Catches Alleged Archaeological Thieves in Southwest
One arrestee tells his tale: "I'm guilty of arrowhead collecting"

News 6/16/09
Do Gay Animals Change Evolution?
Animals that engage in same-sex sexual behavior may be acting in accord with adaptational strategies rather than against them--and bending the way we think about evolution

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