ROCK DOC - No nuke plants ... and then what? - Energy is the lifeblood of modern economies and there’s no more amazingly useful form of energy than electricity. That’s why ...
ROCK DOC - Floodplains brook disaster for unwary - You have certainly done business on them, and you may well have lived within their boundaries. Whether you are reading this i...
ROCK DOC - Ancient flowering plant blooms in lab - The Ice Age is my favorite bit of Earth history, a time when mammoths, giant beavers and saber-toothed tigers roamed the worl...
ROCK DOC - Science improves on the staff of life - About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter Ice Age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today...
Original early bird, or feathered dino? - I've never met Ryan Carney of Brown University, but he is my kind of man. On his arm he has tattooed the image of a feather o...
Hope with soap: Project raises bar on global sanitation problems - Little kids are amenable to learning new habits -- generally much more so than those of us who are set in our ways because th...
ROCK DOC - Powerful pressures and special waters - It does seem like there’s something magical about artesian wells. Digging down to a level in the Earth from which water then ...
ROCK DOC - Basic biology implicated in wealthy bipolar's spending spree - It’s pretty common for us “little peanuts” to feel some envy about the wealthy and better-known citizens among us. Who, after...
ROCK DOC - Dim season or no, dams keep the lights on - As the long season of darkness lingers over the country, it’s natural to think about lighting — and how dependent we are on e...
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