Science

The Riddle of the Carolina Bays

August 31, 1997

A Gift of a Garden

Green activist Dan Barker is seeding many lives with hope

August 31, 1997

Planets Around Other Stars Are Hot Hot Hot

Suddenly we find that lots of nearby stars have their own planets, even though so far we can "see" only the giants

August 31, 1997

It All Comes Out in the Wash

August 31, 1997

Here, Birds Are Unafraid

Galápagos seabirds tolerate human spectators, and crabs in Panama ignore cars (but hide from trucks)

September 1997

Flood Forecasting

Water, Water, Everywhere

July 31, 1997

For Rescue Dogs "Nothing's Better Than a Live Find"

July 31, 1997

An Ant's Life is No Picnic

August 1997

Mysterious Pearls

Did they once belong to Vietnam's royal family? Perhaps. But for Ben Zucker, a "sleuth" of the gems trade, seeking the answer matters more than finding it

June 30, 1997

Black Wolf: Ernest Thompson Seton

In his lifetime no one did more than Ernest Thompson Seton to promote the idea that nature is a very good thing

June 30, 1997

Wastewater Problem? Just Plant a Marsh

For some of the toughest environmental cleanups, plants can do it better and cheaper than we can

July 1997

Nature's Own Pooper-Scoopers Keep Earth Livable for All of Us

If it were not for dung beetles, members of the scarab family, every terrestrial organism would be up to its eyeballs in you know what

May 31, 1997

The Object at Hand

From a forest that flourished 207 million years ago, the Sherman Logs bear stony witness to a general's curiosity--and life in an age gone by

June 1997

A Hypochondriac Knows Those 'Germs' That Threaten Him Are Real

June 1997

Mining the Scrap Heap for Treasure

Across America, a network of scrap-metal firms is supplying much of the raw materials, iron to aluminum, that fuel the growing global economy

April 30, 1997

Condors: Back From the Brink

Hopes for the endangered vultures' survival soared recently after six captive birds were released on a clifftop in the Arizona wilds

May 1997

Cybercops Take a Byte Out of Computer Crime

A detective working the computer crime beat still needs street smarts, but there's a lot of uncharted legal territory out there

April 30, 1997

Phenomena, Comment and Notes

Life not only thrives in the heat and violence of Earth's submarine volcanoes, it may have started there

May 1997

Golf Gets Back to Nature, Inviting Everyone to Play

Using natural landforms and native grasses and plants, golf course designers are creating links that are environmentally up to par

April 1, 1997

Everyone Knows the Dragon Is Only a Mythical Beast

But try telling that to the people who live on a few islands in Indonesia where several thousand real dragons subsist in the wild

April 1, 1997