The lowly bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has plagued mankind for thousands of years. An estimated one third of our human tribe still suffers from tuberculosis or TB. More than 2 million people die annually from the […]
Prime properties, great views, fantastic for foraging. That’s how ancient real estate agents might have marketed these lands to prehistoric home-seekers thousands of years ago. [media-credit name=”Dan MacArthur” align=”alignleft” width=”300″][/media-credit] But such pitches would have […]
We trample it, shovel it, bury things with it, and grow food in it, but do we truly understand the soil beneath our feet? Scientists don’t think so. Many are beginning to realize that soil […]
The recent Colorado State University study extolling the positive economic aspects of Larimer County’s large and small beer breweries — namely 938 direct jobs with $83.2 million in payroll — doesn’t address the downside of […]
Earlier this year, after I had made an author presentation at Wellington Middle School, a student asked, “So you don’t think the world is going to end in 2012?” She had seen the 2009 disaster […]
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, I enjoyed giving an annual Christmas program about the Star of Bethlehem in the planetarium on the top floor of the natural history museum. Visitors oohed and […]
“Cantaloupe for desert,” Nancy said. Nervous laughter followed. A bunch of fossil-hunting science geeks sat around a cooling cook stove in southern Colorado this September, enjoying the red-tinted sky and the warm feeling of camp […]
If Helen of Troy’s beauty once “launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hopes that the charm of the black-footed ferret’s whiskered nose and masked […]
For Colorado residents, September’s shorter days and cool, crisp mornings signal that it’s time to wrap up summer projects and prepare for winter weather. For black bears, the arrival of fall is more like a […]
[media-credit id=8 align=”alignnone” width=”165″][/media-credit] The world runs on solar power. It has for the last 3.5 billion years, since some microbe captured sunlight with chlorophyll and fired up photosynthesis. Human beings release stored solar energy […]
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