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Biology: Featured Facts
What is Garlic Mustard?
Biology / Plants

Garlic Mustard - this harmless looking plant can take over the understory of a forest in a matter of a few years. Most of the time it is seen without the small white flowers you see above but has a characteristic elk-horn like appearance where the flowers are located. European decedents brought this plant to America because they liked to eat the tender green leaves. The leaf, when crushed, has a distinctive garlic odor to it especially when it is young. If someone told you that they were going to look for garlic mustard, you would probably think they were making dinner. Garlic Mustard, or Alliaria petiolata, is actually a plant native to Europe. It b continue reading this fact

 Can You Drink Too Much Water?
Biology / Human Biology

When is enough, enough? Body fluids account for over 70% of an average adult's body. Our body fluids are composed of water and substances called electrolytes. Dissolved in water, these materials develop tiny electrical charg continue reading this fact

 Food Irradiation: A Safe Measure
Biology / Germs, Viruses, Microbes

Food safety is a subject of growing importance to consumers. One reason is the emergence of new types of harmful bacteria or evolving forms of older ones that can cause serious illness. A relatively n continue reading this fact
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Animals:
  1. Batesian Mimicry
  2. California Condor
  3. Cougars, A Jumping Star
  4. Does Your Beagle Have A Belly Button?
  5. Endangered Species - The Hawksbill Turtle
  6. Eukaryotic Organisms
  7. How Do Cats See in the Dark?
  8. How Does The Turtle Get Its Shell?
  9. Is It Sexism or Racism?
  10. Marmaduke and the Taco Bell Chihuahua Are Cousins
  11. Nature's Exceptions to Our Rules
  12. Regeneration 101
  13. The Handsome Betta Fish
  14. The Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
  15. What Elements Are Required By Animals And Plants For Survival?
  16. Where Do Frogs Go In The Winter?
  17. Wise As An Owl
Fish:
  1. Diadromous Fish
  2. Heady Success
  3. Lionfish Invasion
  4. The Razor-sharp Surgeonfish
  5. When A Bass Isn't A Bass
Fungi:
  1. A Humongous Fungus Among Us
  2. Are Mushrooms Plants?
  3. Ergot, Witches & Rye. Oh My!
  4. The Gingerbread Man
  5. Who Moved My Moldy Cheese?
Genetics:
  1. Cloning and Ethics
  2. Embryo Transfer and Cloning
  3. Genetic Testing And Discrimination
  4. Genome Mapping: A Guide To The Genetic Highway We Call The Human Genome
  5. Microarrays: Chipping Away At The Mysteries Of Science And Medicine
  6. The Dogma of Life
  7. Why Aren't Mice More Like Us?
Germs, Viruses, Microbes:
  1. Bacteria Sometimes Catch A Virus
  2. Bird Flu, Swine Flu, Human Flu
  3. Flu Pandemics in the 20th Century
  4. Food Irradiation: A Safe Measure
  5. How Do Bacteria Reproduce?
  6. How Does Salmonella Get Inside Chicken Eggs?
  7. Life In The Extreme
  8. Microorganisms: Are they really that bad?
  9. West Nile Virus Spreads Through United States
  10. What's In Your Water?
  11. You Can Learn A Lot From A Microbe.
Habitat:
  1. An Invasion of Infiltrators
  2. Wetlands Top Ecosystem
  3. Why Are Zebra Mussels Successful As Invaders?
Human Anatomy:
  1. Did You Smell Something?
  2. Electricity and the Brain
  3. Fahrenheit 100 and Rising
  4. Fahrenheit 98.6
  5. Hey Nose-Brain!
  6. Now You See It, Now You Don't
  7. Splitting Hairs
  8. The Human Pancreas
  9. Vibrational Energy
  10. Vitreous Humor, Sclera and Other Yukky Eye Stuff
  11. We Live In Two Distinct Visual Worlds
  12. What Causes Wrinkles?
  13. What Gives Hair Its Color?
  14. What We Learned From The Songbirds
  15. What's Blindsight?
Human Biology:
  1. A Sweaty Subject
  2. Can You Drink Too Much Water?
  3. How Biological Clocks Work
  4. How Blood Clots
  5. Is Your Immune System Educated?
  6. Leading Killer Wears Two Faces
  7. Neurons
  8. Obesity: How much fat can your genes handle?
  9. Pass the Iodized Salt Please
  10. Potassium Iodide To The Rescue
  11. Proteins Function Through Their Conformation
  12. Proteins In General
  13. Respect Your Nose
  14. The Science of Tears
  15. Water, Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink
  16. What Are Blood Types, and Why Are They Important?
  17. What Are Stem Cells?
  18. Your Senses Make Sense of Energy
Human Mind:
  1. A Tickle is All in the Timing
  2. Billions and Billions
  3. Brain Waves
  4. Butterflies In Your Brain
  5. Coffee: Beverage Of Sedition
  6. Do Blind People Dream?
  7. Left Nostril Right Brain
  8. Monkey See Monkey Do: Mirror Neurons May Lie At The Root Of Language
  9. Neurogenesis
  10. New Ideas About An Old Puzzle
  11. Our Brains: A Wasted Resource?
  12. Phrenology
  13. Synchronicity
  14. The Blood-brain Barrier
  15. The Developing Brain
  16. The Limbic System
  17. The Self-less Gene?
  18. The Strange Case Of Phineas Gage
  19. The Touching Brain
  20. There's A Lot More To Vision Than Meets The Eye
  21. Welcome to1984
  22. What's So Funny?
  23. Where is God in the Brain?
  24. Which Came First? The Words or the Melody?
  25. Why Are Yawns Contagious?
  26. Why Tree Twig Twine Twists Tongues
  27. Word Power of the Very Young
Insects:
  1. Are Bees Physicists?
  2. If You're Bringing Cows, Bring Your Own Decomposers
  3. Send In the Lady
  4. The Ants Go Marching One by One, Hurrah!
  5. The Art of Hunting
  6. The Journey of the Monarchs
  7. Throw Out Your Thermometer
  8. What Makes Those Jumping Beans Jump?
Invertebrates:
  1. Nematodes Are Everywhere
  2. Prokaryotic Organisms
  3. Sex and the Sea Slug
  4. What Is A Coccolithophore?
  5. What Is Coral Bleaching?
Mammals:
  1. Beluga Whales
  2. Gestation Periods of Mammals
  3. Gray Wolf - Canis lupus
  4. Grizzly Bear, (Ursus arctos horribilis)
  5. How Did Dogs Evolve?
  6. I Am The Walrus
  7. Steller Sea Lion Biology
  8. Sweet Dolphin Dreams
  9. Vampires
  10. West Indian Manatee, (Trichechus manatus)
  11. When Did A Cat Become A Kitty?
  12. Will That Be One Hump or Two?
Natural History:
  1. The Great Permian Extinction
Plants:
  1. Beware -- Red Tide!
  2. Bioenergy Basics
  3. Botrytis: The Noble Rot
  4. Giant Cloned Monster Loose In Mediterranean Sea
  5. GM: Not For General Motors Anymore
  6. How Do Cacti Survive in That Environment?
  7. How Do They Grow Those Colossal Pumpkins?
  8. Is Catnip a Drug for Cats?
  9. It All Started With The Colwart
  10. Luck Of The Irish?
  11. Man-Eating Plants
  12. Palm Trees and Prickly Pears
  13. St. John's Wort
  14. Tea Time!
  15. The Rapid Movement of the Soybean Rust Pathogen
  16. The World's Largest Clone
  17. Tobacco Mosaic Virus
  18. What are Bacillariophyta?
  19. What is Garlic Mustard?
  20. What's The Difference Between A Sweet Potato And A Yam?
  21. What’s So Different About Ferns?
  22. Why Do Leaves Change Color In The Fall?
  23. Why is Red-Green Colorblindness a 'Guy Thing?'
  24. Yes! We Have New Bananas
Reproduction:
  1. The Egg-citing Egg
Reptiles:
  1. A Creature Only A Mother Could Love?
  2. Let Go, Gecko!
  3. See You Later Crocodile, In A While Alligator
  4. Why Can't We Really Clone Dinosaurs?
Spiders:
  1. Spiders and Their Venom

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