NPR Science – January 31, 2011
Week of January 31, 2011
Click on the logo above to go the the NPR Science site, or use the links below to navigate one of the stories that I thought may interest you.
- Tiny Water Flea Clocks In Record Number Of Genes (3:39)
- Genes Play Role In Selecting Friends, Study Finds (4:41)
- NASA Detects Dozens Of Potential ‘Habitable Zone’ Planets (3:11)
- Doctor Challenges Cause Of MS And Treatment (5:29)
- ‘Lolita’ Author Nabokov Was Right About Butterflies (4:32)
- Deep Below Antarctic Ice, Lake May Soon See Light (4:53)
- ‘Alarming’ Amazon Droughts May Have Global Fallout – text
- Why Keeping Little Girls Squeaky Clean Could Make Them Sick – text
- Tools Never Die. Waddaya Mean, Never? and Am I Extinct? – text
- Dogs Earn More Cred For Sniffing Out Cancer – text
I tried to embed these videos for snow day viewing pleasure but I couldn’t. All of these videos are about the snowflake research conducted by Dr. Ken Libbrecht, a Caltech physicist.
- Growing a Snowflake in a Bottle – Science Friday
- Snowflake Safari – Science Friday
- Snowflake Watching – YouTube
