Past Articles by Adam Cole
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth's history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes. The discovery could give scientists new insights into early life on Earth and inform the search for life on other planets. |
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth's history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes. The discovery could give scientists new insights into early life on Earth and inform the search for life on other planets. |
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth's history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes. The discovery could give scientists new insights into early life on Earth and inform the search for life on other planets. |
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth's history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes. The discovery could give scientists new insights into early life on Earth and inform the search for life on other planets. |
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Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life Scientists have discovered water that was sealed in Canadian bedrock for nearly half of Earth's history. It may contain the descendants of ancient microbes. The discovery could give scientists new insights into early life on Earth and inform the search for life on other planets. |
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Good Luck With That 'Perfect' March Madness Bracket. You'll Need It Millions of basketball fans will fill out NCAA tournament brackets this week and try to correctly predict the outcomes of every game. The chances of succeeding are about 1 in 150 quintillion. A group of computer scientists are trying to beat those odds by writing programs that learn to pick winners. |
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Good Luck With That 'Perfect' March Madness Bracket. You'll Need It Millions of basketball fans will fill out NCAA tournament brackets this week and try to correctly predict the outcomes of every game. The chances of succeeding are about 1 in 150 quintillion. A group of computer scientists are trying to beat those odds by writing programs that learn to pick winners. |
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Young Adult Prairie Dogs Dig Living In Mom's Basement Most animals leave their home turf when they reach adulthood to avoid competing with relatives. But here's an exception: More than three decades of dogged research shows that prairie dogs are more likely to disperse when all of their family members are gone. |
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Young Adult Prairie Dogs Dig Living In Mom's Basement Most animals leave their home turf when they reach adulthood to avoid competing with relatives. But here's an exception: More than three decades of dogged research shows that prairie dogs are more likely to disperse when all of their family members are gone. |
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To Make Mice Smarter, Add A Few Human Brain Cells For more than a century, neurons have been the superstars of the brain. Now researchers say that when they placed human versions of another type of brain cell into mice brains, the mice grew up to be faster learners. This supports the hypothesis that these glial cells — and not just better-known neurons — play an important role in learning. |
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To Make Mice Smarter, Add A Few Human Brain Cells For more than a century, neurons have been the superstars of the brain. Now researchers say that when they placed human versions of another type of brain cell into mice brains, the mice grew up to be faster learners. This supports the hypothesis that these glial cells — and not just better-known neurons — play an important role in learning. |
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To Make Mice Smarter, Add A Few Human Brain Cells For more than a century, neurons have been the superstars of the brain. Now researchers say that when they placed human versions of another type of brain cell into mice brains, the mice grew up to be faster learners. This supports the hypothesis that these glial cells — and not just better-known neurons — play an important role in learning. |
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Honey, It's Electric: Bees Sense Charge On Flowers Bees and flowers communicate in colors, scents and shapes. Now scientists have discovered that bumblebees can also sense flowers' electric fields. This sixth sense helps them remember and recognize nectar-rich blooms while foraging. |
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Honey, It's Electric: Bees Sense Charge On Flowers Bees and flowers communicate in colors, scents and shapes. Now scientists have discovered that bumblebees can also sense flowers' electric fields. This sixth sense helps them remember and recognize nectar-rich blooms while foraging. |
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After Sandy, Not All Sand Dunes Are Created Equal In New Jersey, thousands of discarded Christmas trees have dodged the wood chipper and hit the beach instead. They're being used to jump-start new dunes, but scientists warn that these man-made dunes could be less sturdy than dunes that form naturally. |
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After Sandy, Not All Sand Dunes Are Created Equal In New Jersey, thousands of discarded Christmas trees have dodged the wood chipper and hit the beach instead. They're being used to jump-start new dunes, but scientists warn that these man-made dunes could be less sturdy than dunes that form naturally. |
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After Sandy, Not All Sand Dunes Are Created Equal In New Jersey, thousands of discarded Christmas trees have dodged the wood chipper and hit the beach instead. They're being used to jump-start new dunes, but scientists warn that these man-made dunes could be less sturdy than dunes that form naturally. |
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Fresh Clues In Dinosaur Whodunit Point To Asteroid What killed the dinosaurs? It's history's ultimate murder mystery, and for decades the prime suspect has been a giant asteroid. New data suggest that it struck right before the extinction. But scientists say it still may not tell the full story of what happened to the dinosaurs. |
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Fresh Clues In Dinosaur Whodunit Point To Asteroid What killed the dinosaurs? It's history's ultimate murder mystery, and for decades the prime suspect has been a giant asteroid. New data suggest that it struck right before the extinction. But scientists say it still may not tell the full story of what happened to the dinosaurs. |
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Shall I Encode Thee In DNA? Sonnets Stored On Double Helix The world is full of data — and that's a problem. We have to find a place to store all those digital photos, tax records and unfinished novels. British scientists have demonstrated a possible solution: They've stored all of Shakespeare's sonnets on several small stretches of DNA. |
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Shall I Encode Thee In DNA? Sonnets Stored On Double Helix The world is full of data — and that's a problem. We have to find a place to store all those digital photos, tax records and unfinished novels. British scientists have demonstrated a possible solution: They've stored all of Shakespeare's sonnets on several small stretches of DNA. |
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Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs Gin, Jesuit priests, communist bravado — the history of malaria is littered with strange bedfellows, as our video shows. The parasite has proved to be a wily foe, frustrating human efforts to control it time and time again. |
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Herbs And Empires: A Brief, Animated History Of Malaria Drugs Gin, Jesuit priests, communist bravado — the history of malaria is littered with strange bedfellows, as our video shows. The parasite has proved to be a wily foe, frustrating human efforts to control it time and time again. |
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Guerrilla Cartographers Put Global Food Stats On The Map The mapmakers have amassed some 80 maps for Food: An Atlas, ranging from surplus in Northeast Italy to meat production in Maryland. The goal is to spread information about various food systems so they can be adapted locally. |
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Guerrilla Cartographers Put Global Food Stats On The Map The mapmakers have amassed some 80 maps for Food: An Atlas, ranging from surplus in Northeast Italy to meat production in Maryland. The goal is to spread information about various food systems so they can be adapted locally. |
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In Sandy's Wake, A Reshaped Coastline Superstorm Sandy caused billions of dollars of damage, washing away houses, boardwalks and boats. But it also washed away dunes that protect coastal communities, literally redrawing the map. |
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In Sandy's Wake, A Reshaped Coastline Superstorm Sandy caused billions of dollars of damage, washing away houses, boardwalks and boats. But it also washed away dunes that protect coastal communities, literally redrawing the map. |
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In Sandy's Wake, A Reshaped Coastline Superstorm Sandy caused billions of dollars of damage, washing away houses, boardwalks and boats. But it also washed away dunes that protect coastal communities, literally redrawing the map. |
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A Campaign Map, Morphed By Money We've reshaped the United States based on where superPACs and other outside groups spent their money to air political ads aimed at influencing the presidential election. The result? One weirdly telling map. |
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A Human-Powered Helicopter: Straight Up Difficult It's difficult to build a working four-rotor helicopter that spans 100 feet and only weighs 80 pounds. It's even harder when your engine is a 0.7-horsepower person. But two teams of young engineers hope to do just that. |
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A New Species Discovered ... On Flickr Could crowd-sourced photo sharing be the future of taxonomy? Cybertaxonomy? |
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Olympic Bodies: They Just Don't Make Them Like They Used To We've put together an infographic that explores how athletes' bodies have changed over the last century. Those physiques are shaped by years of training - and by the laws of physics. |
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This Image Is Not Photoshopped It's not two photos stitched together, and it's not an installation. This red line is the stain of toxic sludge. |
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Drunk On Biology For St. Patrick's Day This drinking song celebrates the biochemistry of getting drunk, the hangover that ensues, and the microorganism behind it all. |
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Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online When sick people search the Web for remedies or tweet about their symptoms, they're sending an early warning signal about disease outbreaks. Now scientists and public health officials are listening in. |
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Drink Coffee? Off With Your Head! By now, many New Year's resolvers are finding out how difficult it is to give up caffeine. History brims over with coffee-lovers who couldn't bring themselves to quit the bean - even when they faced decapitation. |
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Wear 'Em, Chuck 'Em, Float 'Em: 10 Things To Do With Twinkies When we heard the news about the Hostess bankruptcy and the possible demise of the Twinkie, we got to thinking about just how wonderful Twinkies are. Here are some ways to experience the joy of Twinkies without eating them. |
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What's Behind 2011's Deadly Tornado Season? The season isn't over, but tornado outbreaks have already struck urban areas and killed more than 500 people. A meteorologist puts the destruction in historical context, and explains that in the long term, tornadoes aren't becoming more frequent. |
