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Alan Boss: Universe could have lots of Earth-like planets
Alan Boss says the universe could be crowded with rocky planets like Earth - some possibly with water, and even life. Amazing!
October 5, 2009
9 billion people on Earth in 2050?
Some population experts are now wondering if an often-cited number - 9 billion people by the year 2050 - is big enough.
October 4, 2009
How New Jersey’s sustainable oyster fishery got that way
Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory on the New Jersey side of Delaware Bay assists the one sustainable oyster fishery on the East Coast.
October 2, 2009
How do Monarch butterflies migrate?
Monarch butterflies of eastern and central North America migrate each fall, over great distances, to the same winter homes of their great-great grandparents.
October 1, 2009
Are viruses transmitted more easily when it’s cold?
There's a lot that's unknown about flu viruses, but flu season does happen in the winter so does a virus spread more easily when it's cold?
October 1, 2009
If Earth is rotating, why don’t airplanes move backwards?
As you sit on the runway, your plane is already moving at the same speed Earth spins because the Earth is rotating.
September 30, 2009
Do identical twins have the same fingerprints?
The prints of identical twins are more alike than the prints of two completely unrelated people - but they're not identical.
September 30, 2009
Two galaxies being stripped of gas and dust
Two galaxies in the Virgo cluster 60 million light-years away are being stripped of gas by a process akin to the wind you feel in your face when bicycling.
September 30, 2009
Robin Bell investigates why polar ice is melting
"To understand any process," said Robin Bell , "you have to understand it from start to end. And what we want to be able to do with ice sheets is actually model how they grow and how they collapse."
September 28, 2009
Shrimp greenhouses for sustainable aquaculture
Dr. Jim Diana has been researching a sustainable method of shrimp farming which can be done indoors and which can be done even in colder climates.
September 28, 2009
