Uncategorized

  1. Earth

    Baking dirt to predict erosion after a fire

    Lab tests suggest that a wide variety of soils exposed to the heat of intense wildfires end up with a similar resistance to erosion, a finding that may help scientists model that process more accurately.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cell transplants make gains versus diabetes

    Transplanting insulin-making cells from a single cadaver into people with type 1 diabetes can reverse the disease in some people.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Earth

    Winged solution to biopollution?

    Government officials have released alien moths in hopes that they will rein in the spread of an aggressive climbing fern now invading some 100,000 acres in south Florida.