Just last week, my colleagues and I ate a delicious “graduation” dinner to commemorate the end of the 2009-2010 Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder. It was a bittersweet night. The fellowship is a fantastic program, and I’ll miss it. But I’ve also been eager to get back to life as a [...]
With all my traveling and move preparation, I hadn’t been keeping up with the latest on swine flu (aka the new H1N1 strain) — and truth be told, I figured the threat of a pandemic was water under the bridge. Not necessarily, as I learned by listening in to a press conference earlier today. In [...]
Termite kings are fine for fathering the workers, but when it comes to producing daughters, the queen‘s got it under control, thanks … That’s the new finding from researchers in Raleigh, North Carolina and Japan, embellished with my romantic cynicism. Scientifically speaking, here are the goods: the researchers have shown for the first time that it is possible [...]
These are the themes of scientific research in more than 2,000 scientific publications, mostly scholarly journals. Pink and blue indicate physics and chemistry, green stands for biology, red represents medicine, and yellow and white indicate social sciences and humanities. Johan Bollen, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, was lead author on a paper [...]
Carbs may have paved the way for humans to evolve two million years ago, which means low-carb diets could actually be — well, primal. Anne Stone, an anthropologist at Arizona State University in Phoenix, has been exploring the genetic underpinnings of the human shift to a starchy diet, which may have been a pivotal factor [...]
