EvolutionJuly 13, 2009
Vietnam Burning: Warfare Scorched the Land for 1,500 Years
Political unrest between occupying Chinese and local Vietnamese groups--not climate change or agriculture--led to a surge in the frequency of fires
Stories by Katherine Harmon
EvolutionJuly 13, 2009
Ancient fish protrusion points to prehistoric intercourse
HealthJuly 13, 2009
Obama nominates new surgeon general: MacArthur "genius grant" fellow Regina Benjamin
The SciencesJuly 10, 2009
Forensic Anthropologists Aim to Identify Bodies in Cemetery Scam
Scientists--including one who studied King Tut--are working to examine hundreds of human remains illegally exhumed from a Chicago burial ground
HealthJuly 9, 2009
Fewer calories = longer life? A new primate study says, yes
EnvironmentJuly 9, 2009
Continued rumblings may mean stress in the San Andreas Fault is building for another big quake
HealthJuly 8, 2009
Obama will name Francis Collins as new NIH director
The SciencesJuly 8, 2009
Swans are dying by the dozen in Ireland, cause unknown
EnvironmentJuly 8, 2009
Endangered Species Get Iced in Museum DNA Repository
Genetic information from species on National Park Service land that are threatened with extinction will now be frozen and stored for future research at the American Museum of Natural History
The SciencesJuly 8, 2009
Audit Smokes Out Lax Fire Protection at U.S. Nuclear Weapons Lab
Fewer than half of the fire prevention shortcomings examined at the Los Alamos National Laboratory had been fixed after previous evaluation, an Energy Department audit reports
ComputingJuly 6, 2009
Your own personal codex: Oldest bible digitized for free access
EvolutionJuly 6, 2009
New dino species discovered in the land Down Under
EnvironmentJuly 3, 2009
Bombs bursting in air: What's in those Fourth of July fireworks, anyway?
EnvironmentJuly 3, 2009
Animals of the Disappearing Mangroves
As mangrove forests shrink worldwide, a menagerie of specially adapted animals that depend on them are at risk, too
The SciencesJuly 2, 2009
Ant colony crosses continents
HealthJuly 1, 2009
DNA Sudoku
Researchers get help from a venerable number theory and a popular puzzle game to solve genetic medical mysteries
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2009
News Scan Briefs: Do Rain Forests Make Rain?
Also: ants: "I'm not dead yet," a lower high-water mark, working on the railroad, and temptation zone
EnvironmentJune 30, 2009
EPA reverses Bush ruling, grants California stricter emissions rules
EnvironmentJune 30, 2009
Gray wolf returns to endangered list in northern Midwest
The SciencesJune 29, 2009
Duckbilled dinosaurs dined with an unusual bite
EnvironmentJune 29, 2009
How Does Geothermal Drilling Trigger Earthquakes?
People living near a geothermal drilling project in fault-riddled northern California are worried about more earthquakes after a similar project triggered a major jolt in Switzerland. A seismologist explains the forces at work
EnvironmentJune 25, 2009
Changing ocean chemistry might jam fish ears
EvolutionJune 24, 2009
Stone Age jams: Humans playing the flute for at least 35,000 years, no word yet on sax
The SciencesJune 24, 2009
Caught on Video: Laws of attraction on the nanoscale