Garden Greenery is Brainier Than You Think
They learn. They remember. They make decisions. ...read more
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Athlete, Interrupted
A marathoner completes a race through the Borneo rainforest, then pays the price with a deadly ailment. The Borneo wetlands teem with darting birds, slithering snakes and dangling orangutans. Blood-sucking leeches and slim, coiled microbes also abound. Some folks find out about these guys the hard way. Mary, 46, was a longtime marathon runner from Southern California. She was in my office at UCLA Medical Center for a checkup because she was training for a competition in Borneo, a rugged rai ...read more
How to Follow a Fish
The tools researchers use to track their scaly subjects. ...read more
20 Things You Didn’t Know About … Earthquakes
Even though technology has helped measure strength and flag strike zones, earthquakes still have a few mysteries that rattle experts. ...read more
The War Over Reality
Quantum physics may be well understood, but scientists still don’t agree on what it means. ...read more
The Names Behind the Units of Measure
You know the units, but do you recognize the scientists responsible for them? ...read more
The Dynasties of Science
The auto industry had the Fords, oil had the Rockefellers, and politics had the Kennedys. Science, too, has its legacy lineages. ...read more
The Heroes of Science
Here's to the household names and forgotten figures who accomplished incredible feats of knowledge — no capes required. ...read more
The Unsung Heroes of Science
Some scientists never got the praise they deserved. Here's to the ones history passed over. ...read more
Extinction for Easter Island’s Last Endemics
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