The SciencesJune 1, 2009
Learning Fat-Burning Secrets from Sled Dogs
Cracking the metabolic secrets of distance-racing canines
Stories by Krista West
Krista West is a science writer living in southern New Mexico.
EvolutionOctober 1, 2008
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers
Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve
EarthNovember 1, 2005
Scoping Out the Planet
Greg van der Vink hopes that EarthScope yields unprecedented data about faults and plates. It may do for geoscience what human genome sequencing did for biology
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2005
Rebuilding a Volcano
Mount St. Helens may be patching in its 1980 crater
Space & PhysicsMarch 15, 2004
Storm Spotting
A step closer to forecasting disruptive solar activity
EnvironmentNovember 1, 2003
Restoring the Rio
Efforts to keep the Rio Grande filled with water
The SciencesMay 1, 2003
Sounding Off
Lawsuits block science over fears that sonar harms whales
The SciencesAugust 1, 2002
The Billionaire Conservationist
Can Ted Turner save threatened species? He is using his private lands and deep pockets to reintroduce animals driven off by development
The SciencesMay 1, 2002
Lion versus Lamb
In New Mexico, a battle brews between two rare species