Roberta Kwok
science writer
Science Notes
Cracking the Earthquake Code
Do earthquakes provide magnetic warning signs?
Harvard Magazine
Painting and Numbers
A mathematician plays art detective  pdf
San Francisco Chronicle
Humor helps make simple science fun
Natalie Angier goes on a whirligig tour of science
Science News for Kids
Little Beetle, Big Horns
Sniffing out the evolution of dung beetle horns
California
The Stars Her Destination
Epiphany leads a business student to NASA  pdf
Salon.com
Is local food really miles better?
Putting local fruits and veggies to the carbon test
ScienceNOW
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Need Directions? Ask A Moth
Migrating pests have an internal compass
Tigers Pass the Purity Test
DNA reveals captive cats aren't all mongrels
Dirty Rotten Poxviruses
Deadly viruses disguise themselves as garbage
Bad News in Baby Rice?
Baby food contains worrisome arsenic levels
Pavlov's Bacteria
Microbes rely on signals to anticipate the future
Whr R U?
Cell phones help scientists track human motion
Doing Business, Open and Shut
(See 2nd and 10th stories)
SETI Radio
Assisted production of the following podcasts
Nerds
Science and Art: Worlds Apart?
Formula One: The Drake Equation
Senses Census
Skeptical Sunday: Fortune Cooking
Aging: Stop Right There!
Mongabay.com
Scientists aim to catalogue complete tropical island
Loh Down on Science
Not Mucus
The 2008 SciCom Interviews
The SciCom Interview: Dean Falk
A conversation with a contender in anthropology's fiercest brawl
Idaho National Laboratory News
Engineer simulates a robot's sense of touch
Sensitive laser instrument could aid search for life on Mars
A smart hybrid car monitor puts the brains in battery testing
Flexible nanoantenna arrays capture abundant solar energy
Space Nuclear Research fellows unveil ambitious summer projects
INL kicks off first university experiment in Advanced Test Reactor
Video: Supercomputer enables more realistic nuclear fuel simulations
Research and Creative Activity
A Sweet Science
Chemists untangle the secrets of sugar  pdf
Biomedical Computation Review
Simulating a scaffold for bone growth  pdf
Salinas Californian
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Invasive plant poses threat
Scientist surfaces with kelp forest discovery
Agriculture leaders think out of the lettuce box
City honors physicist, former instructor
Alliance targets produce policies
Big Sur rescue a real cliffhanger

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Indiana Daily Student
Black hole envelops Mercury-size mass
'Killer Asteroid' could strike Earth by 2036

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