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Not As Extinct as We Thought– Maybe?

Ornithologists and amateur birders were both stunned and thrilled in 2005 when the Cornell Lab of Ornithology announc...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 26 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Harvesting Toxins

If you talk to employees at one of the US Governments nuclear facilities long enough, you’re likely to hear a lot of...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 24 Feb 2006 • Read →

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The Not-So-Legendary Chimera

Imagine if a man discovered one day that two of his three children were not genetically related to him. Recrimination...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 15 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Parasites on the Brain

Toxoplasma gondii may be the most prevalent human parasite. As many as 50% of humans worldwide, and up to 80% in urba...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 08 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Great Advances in Smoking Safety

Smoking tobacco has been around practically forever, but cigarettes as a commercial product are actually a fairly rec...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 03 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Head of the Class

We seem to be getting swelled heads. Or at least bigger ones. A study published in the British Dental Journal ran...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 01 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Thar She Blows!

What do you do if an eight-ton sperm whale beaches itself in your town and dies? This was the dilemma of the town...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 27 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Green, Green Sheep of Home

Transgenics, while still in its infancy as a field, is nothing new at this point. We already have genetically modifie...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 24 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Popsicle Doctor

In medicine, as in many other endeavors, correctly assessing the problem is the biggest part of finding the solution....

Written by Cynthia Wood • 19 Jan 2006 • Read →

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The Singing Scourge

Early in the 1200’s, Genghis Khan and the Mongol army he commanded were well on their way to becoming the most feared...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 17 Jan 2006 • Read →

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