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Why is the U.S. Navy interested in Cicadas?

June 4, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

It turns out the swarms of loud, creepy insects serve a human purpose beyond frying those tasty little suckers in butter. When the Brood II cicadas emerge in the northeastern […]

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Animals, How Things Work, Science News, Technology

The oldest light in the universe gets its closeup

March 21, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Don’t worry, it’s much less terrifying than Norma Desmond, and infinitely more complex. Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) released their image of the light produced by the Big […]

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Natural History, Science News, Space, Technology

Car traffic driving micro-evolution?

March 19, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

It’s hard to think that you can evolve to avoid fatal car crashes, but apparently, you can. Well not you, but other creatures like cliff swallows can. Ecologist Charles Brown at […]

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Animals, Ecology, Evolution, Our Environment, Science News

Probably the cutest Kickstarter yet

March 19, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

What good is science if it doesn’t inspire the younger generations? Not much good at all, really, which is why this fourth grade class from North Carolina is positively joy-inducing. […]

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How Things Work, Our Environment, Science News, Technology

It’s definitely maybe the Higgs boson

March 14, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Scientists at CERN now say they have definitely found the Higgs boson… sort of. The European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN – stated today that the research gathered last […]

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Physics, Science News

I’m not hunting wabbits

March 13, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

Had Elmer Fudd been around when the Neanderthals walked the earth, he would have been very disappointed to find they were not, in fact, hunting rabbits. At least according to […]

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Animals, Anthropology, Behavior, Natural History, Science News

This DNA isn’t on fire

March 12, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

How do you keep your T-shirts from lighting on fire? Roll around in some herring sperm DNA. That’s obviously not the intrinsic response; researchers at Italy’s Politecnico di Torino lab led […]

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Chemistry, Science News, Technology

A safe haven for chimps

March 12, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

The days in the lab are over for 110 chimpanzees. The chimps previously used for medical research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s New Iberia Research Center are exploring their […]

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Animals, Medicine, Science News

This is no Looney Tune

March 11, 2013by Lindsey Reiser Leave a comment

In Warner Bros.’ cartoons, there aren’t really any unhappy endings (unless you consider the Coyote’s Sisyphean pursuit of the Roadrunner particularly tragic. I say nibble on a desert tortoise or […]

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Animals, Our Environment, Science in Chicago, Science News

How an entrepreneur could help green Chicago

March 11, 2013by Lindsey Reiser 1 Comment

Vince Cushing Jr. has a pretty impressive pedigree when it comes to building things. His grandfather, John Cushing, was a civil engineer, and the namesake of  Notre Dame’s Cushing Hall, […]

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Our Environment, Science in Chicago, Science News, Technology

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