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Cure for baldness may come from this accidental discovery
While working on an experiment involving mice's response to stress, scientists accidentally stumbled upon a potential cure for baldness.
February 23, 2011
Biomimicry and solutions inspired by nature
Biomimicry looks to nature to create sustainable solutions to human problems. The San Diego Zoo is a center for biomimicry research.
February 23, 2011
Human endurance in ancient Ring of Fire settlements
Ancient human populations lived on islands rife with natural disasters. From their early settlements, we're learning about human endurance in a difficult and uncertain world.
February 22, 2011
Sleep and healing in children
Medical sociologist Cary Brown says more research is needed to explore the relationship between lack of sleep and children with chronic health problems.
February 21, 2011
Watch this amazing video of a hummingbird-sized aircraft
The Nano Hummingbird is the world's smallest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or UAV. It's an aircraft that looks and flies like a hummingbird.
February 17, 2011
NASA helps airplanes avoid storms, turbulence, delays
Weather is the main culprit in flight delays. NASA's satellites help airplanes avoid storms by producing better forecasts. Read more here.
February 16, 2011
Slow down there, diet soda study
A February 2011 study suggests a link between diet soda and stroke and other vascular events. But the lack of peer review needs to be acknowledged in news stories.
February 13, 2011
Check out this DNA video
DNA may be the world's most powerful computer chip, says Dr. Martin Hilbert of the University of Southern California. This rockin' DNA animation would appear to support his claim.
February 12, 2011
Martin Hilbert: All human information, stored on CD, would reach beyond the moon
If a single star is a bit of information, there's a galaxy of info for every person on Earth, says the first-ever inventory of our info capacity. Learn more from Martin Hilbert.
February 10, 2011
Resurrecting a 200-year-old vintage beer
Finnish scientists are teasing out the secrets in the oldest bottle of beer in the world, kept chilled for 200 years on a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea.
February 9, 2011
