07/11/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Capturing the Moment
Cliques of neurons store memories in the brains of mice
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07/04/2007
Dr. Bortrum
More Stickiness
Carbon nanotubes used to mimic gecko's sticky feet
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06/27/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Footpads - Hairy and Smooth
Scientists study sticky feet of geckos, frogs and crickets
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06/20/2007
Dr. Bortrum
A Really Cold Case
New evidence on the last hours of the "Iceman" some 5 millenia ago
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06/13/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Laser Alchemy?
French workers turn mercury into gold
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06/06/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Bertha's Prize?
"Elderly" Nobel meets "mature" Bertha and Nobel Prizes result
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05/30/2007
Dr. Bortrum
A Pass on Relativity
The intrigue behind Einstein not getting the Nobel Prize for relativity
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05/23/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Hot Ice
Toasty hot planet may be mostly a core of solid ice!
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05/16/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Einstein Ironies
Isaacson book a winner
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05/09/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Einstein Stumped. A Healthy Hobbit?
Einstein can't explain bobbing bird; worms come to Jamestown; wrist bones of Flores fossil points to a healthy primitive human
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05/02/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Habitable? Possibly
"Wobble" reveals a planetary candidate for life 20 light-years away
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04/25/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Drying Out the Past
Our Nor'easter debris yields memories of young lives
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04/18/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Bubbles
Nor'easter floods Bortrum's basement; bubble fusion in doubt; Don Ho dies
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04/11/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Drink of the Gods
The Aztecs drank "real" cocoa; some Panama Indians still do, and it shows!
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04/04/2007
Dr. Bortrum
Contrasting Achievements
MRI and the Federal Tax Code; MRI Nobelist Paul Lauterbur dies
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