Jungus

Paul Olsen, of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, takes us to a quarry in New Jersey and explains what makes basalt ideal for storing carbon dioxide emissions.

Brenda Tan and Matthew Cost, high school seniors from Trinity School in New York City, used a technique called DNA barcoding to find out what species were present in over 200 animal products. Their results suggest buyers should beware!

Bdelloid rotifers haven’t had sex for at least thirty million years and that’s puzzling. Most asexual animals are doomed to extinction. Two biologists explain the extraordinary adaptations that allow rotifers to survive without sex.

Robots were cast in an ultra-modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Kevin Pratt, of Texas A and M University, explains the research angle of putting search and rescue robots on the stage.

Scientists analyzed melanin in fossil feathers to reconstruct the colors of a 150-million-year-old dinosaur. Forget those drab grays and greens, this dinosaur was flashy.