Ground Can Bounce in Earthquakes
In an earthquake, the light soil and tough crust layers combine to make it possible for the ground to bounce. Cynthia Graber reports
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One scary Halloween frog
A Suriname horned frog photographed at the Bronx Zoo’s World of Reptiles. This South American species is also known as a Pac-Man frog due to its large mouth, which is 1.6 times wider than the length of its body...
Hotel Case Study: Peer Pressure's Impact on the Environment
Hotels find social pressure is more effective than environmental appeals in persuading their customers to adopt ecofriendly practices
What's Causing Bats to Drop Like Flies?
Researchers look beyond white-nose syndrome as the prime suspect in the mysterious deaths of bats in the U.S. Northeast
Chocolate: Treat or Trick?
There is an environmental price for our love of chocolate on Halloween, but it may not be what you think
Cemetery Science: The Geology of Mausoleums
For Halloween, we take a tour of Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, N.Y., with geologist Sidney Horenstein and Woodlawn expert Susan Olsen, concentrating on the geology of the rock used in the memorials...
World without Frogs: Combined Threats May Croak Amphibians
From climate change to herbicide pollution, it's not easy being an amphibian
Instant Egghead: Carbon, Part Two
The amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is causing heat to be trapped, thereby contributing to global warming. A ScientificAmerican.com reporter explains one solution that may stop the problem from getting worse...
Is There Really a Freshwater Crisis?
The problems with the world's water supply, from distribution and overdevelopment to bacteria and diseases
Spreading the Health: Xerox Shares Toxic Waste Cleanup Process
Xerox's rapid extraction technology removes harmful compounds from soil and water in days rather than years
Rageshree Ramachandran: Weathering Storms, Spelling and Slides
She won the National Spelling Bee in 1988, and a 1991 Westinghouse finalist spot. Now she's training to become a gastrointestinal pathologist
Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
In seeming defiance of the second law of thermodynamics, nature is filled with examples of order emerging from chaos. A new theoretical framework resolves the apparent paradox
How to Keep Waste Oil Out of the Water Supply
Used motor oil is a big contributor to the pollution in our waterways
Tilting at Windmills: Is Small-Scale Turbine Power Viable--Or Just an Illusion?
A new plastic turbine can capture energy from the wind gusting over your roof
Hope and the Fight against HIV
The battle must continue, even if 25 years of research have disappointed
Today, Compact Fluorescents--Tomorrow, LED Bulbs?
LED bulbs are more energy-efficient than CF bulbs
Bringing the "Eco-Home" Trend to Condos
Adapting environmental housing trends to condos
Updates: Whatever Happened to Virus-Built Batteries?
Also Updates on brown fat, diabetes and methane from grass
Carbon's role in global warming
Carbon has been clobbered in the headlines lately for its link to global warming and pollution. But is this much-maligned element—the fourth most abundant in the universe—getting a bum rap?...
