Science and Nature
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Colorado State researchers breach the walls of M. tuberculosis
The lowly bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has plagued mankind for thousands of years. An estimated one third of our human tribe…
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Stone circles at Tepee Rings Conservation Easement offer well-rounded insight of local ancient history
Prime properties, great views, fantastic for foraging. That’s how ancient real estate agents might have marketed these lands to prehistoric…
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Turmoil over soil: a climate warming wildcard
We trample it, shovel it, bury things with it, and grow food in it, but do we truly understand the…
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2012: A promising year for discovery and innovation
Earlier this year, after I had made an author presentation at Wellington Middle School, a student asked, “So you don’t…
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The Star of Bethlehem and other heavenly wonders
As an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, I enjoyed giving an annual Christmas program about the Star of Bethlehem…
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Listeria: Cause for caution but not fear
“Cantaloupe for desert,” Nancy said. Nervous laughter followed. A bunch of fossil-hunting science geeks sat around a cooling cook stove…
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The black-footed ferret: Flagship species for the prairie ecosystem
If Helen of Troy’s beauty once “launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium,” the U.S. Fish…
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Fall is a critical time for preventing bear conflicts
For Colorado residents, September’s shorter days and cool, crisp mornings signal that it’s time to wrap up summer projects and…
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Prospects for powering civilization with artificial leaves
[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…