Molly Webster appears in the following:
The Clean Coal Tell-All
Monday, April 13, 2009
What have you heard about clean coal? That it involves vats of liquid carbon dioxide annexed away underground? That it's dangerous? That it's never been done before? In an exclusive i...
Why does scratching stop us from itching?
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
When we drag our nails across a chalkboard, it's not pleasant. But dragging our nails across our skin often provides us nothing but relief from a prickly, tickly sensation know as The...
Saving history: The biologist who protected six million bird-watching notecards
Thursday, April 02, 2009
For nearly 100 years, birds couldn't shake their human paparazzi.
As part of the U.S. government's Bird Migration Program, bird enthusiasts from Kansas to the West Indies tracked d...
Birding gets a digital upgrade
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Starting in 1882 and continuing for almost a century, the United State's Bird Migration Program collected two-by-five notecards from bird watchers around North America. Today, these l...
Can the concrete industry go green?
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Like the Big Mac or Budweiser beer, concrete is everywhere. But concrete comes with a cost: in creating the ubiquitous building material, tons upon tons of carbon dioxide are emitted ...
Survivor: Planet Earth
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
There's a polar bear meeting in Norway this week, where politicians are considering how to handle the dire predictions surrounding the fate of our arctic friend. And this meeting got ...
Continent's smallest meat-eating dinosaur discovered!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
When you think of dinosaurs, what comes to mind? Hulking creature? Gargantuan teeth? What about something the size of a small house cat? In a story that everyone's inner child will lo...
Somalis in Minneosota report many cases of autism
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Somali immigrants living in Minneapolis, Minnesota are finding that an increasing number of their children have autism. Is it random coincidence, or evidence of a larger epidemic? New...
America's #1 Prescription: PLAY!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Ants do it. (says E.O. Wilson)
Octopuses do it.
Humans...mmmm, not so much.
There's talk going around about the science of P-L-A-Y, and specifically, about what play means,...
Copenhagen conference's 'last call' for the case of global warming
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
At a science conference in Copenhagen this week, there's a "last call" for scientists who want to present evidence in the case for global warming. American, British and other European...
For wild creatures, science becomes less intrusive with new technologies
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Anyone who has watched wildlife documentaries may know that animal behavioral patterns are tracked by inserting microchips into the animals' bodies. This is tricky, because it require...
Lofty rhetoric frames President Obama's health care summit
Friday, March 06, 2009
None of The Takeaway staff was chosen as one of the seven "average Americans" in President Obama's health care summit in Washington, but we're making sure we — and you — stay part of ...
Kepler is on the hunt for planets like Earth
Thursday, March 05, 2009
For NASA, one earth isn't enough. On Friday, the agency is set to launch a giant telescope called Kepler into outer space. Kepler will orbit the sun and sweep it's camcorder-like lens...
Environmentally friendly solar flashlight brings light to Africa's poorest villages
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
In undeveloped nations such as Eritrea, Haiti, or Cameroon, light is a luxury. Mark Bent thinks that's unacceptable.
Bent, a former American diplomat and Houston oilman, is CEO...
Commercial breaks may be good for the brain
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Talk about turning a notion on its head. What if your coveted winter vacation—the time when you leave the bitter, snowy cold behind and head for a few days of palm trees—could actuall...
One flu vaccine to rule them all
Monday, February 23, 2009
Winter, spring, summer, fall. It seems like no matter the season, it’s always time to get the newest version of the flu shot. Well, times may be achangin'. Scientists who were looking...
Keep your hands to yourself: Child abuse affects our genes
Monday, February 23, 2009
It doesn't sound nonsensical to say that what happens when we are younger stays with us the rest of our lives. But today, for the first time ever, scientists reveal that childhood abu...
Cartography comes of age with digital cellphone applications
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Anybody who knows anything about Harry Potter has drooled over the Marauder's Map — a handy little tool that shows Harry, in real time, the location of every person at Hogwart's Schoo...
Population growth throws energy conservation a curveball
Friday, February 06, 2009
Okay, okay, we heard you. You, our listeners, smartly pointed out that with all the energy efficient appliances in the world (and thousands of pounds of algae) future energy consumpt...
Turning wild ideas into new energy technologies
Friday, February 06, 2009
Before every new technology there comes the moment of invention. Before there was ethanol, someone had to look at biomass and say, "There's energy in them thar leaves." For the last d...
