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Asian roaches enjoying Florida vacation Florida's infestation of flying Asian cockroaches has begun to resemble a bad dream scripted by Franz Kafka. The airborne intruder, Blattella asahinai, has spread to as many as 18 Florida counties since its...

Explaining and exploiting a winter worry Every spring, farmers in frigid climes reap an irksome harvest of rocks in their fields. Driven up by ice and water, once-buried boulders emerge during winter with enough force to crack roads and foundations,...

Homing in on the longest animal Paleontologists have started using a shotgun in the hunt for a gargantuan dinosaur dubbed Seismosaurus. The gun is part of an arsenal of sophisticated techniques scientists are now attempting to apply to paleontology....

Making chicken wire of molecular size Nine years ago, chemist Orville L. Chapman had one question in mind when he traveled to Germany on a fellowship: "If God would give me one molecule to make, what would that molecule be?" His goal ever since:...

Ritual clues flow from prehistoric blood Never mind conventional wisdom; you can get blood from a stone. Anthropologists have extracted the blood of humans, sheep and an extinct form of cattle from the surface of a stone slab at an approximately 10,000-year-old...

Study upgrades radiation risks to humans Low doses of X-rays and gamma radiation pose a human cancer risk three to four times higher than previously estimated, according to a National Research Council (NRC) report due out in January. Its findings...

The Natural Roots of Fiber Optics Optical fibers will one day thread through most household telephone systems, but they won't be the first light-pipes in your home. You're using millions of fiber-optic elements right now to read this sentence. And...