Trouble in the water. Warming seas could mean less dissolved oxygen--and more dead fish. Credit: Jupiter Images The Oceans' Global Warming Hangover By Phil Berardelli Science NOW Daily News 26 January 2009 Even if humans can rein in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content by the e ...
Cultural barrier. Body paint is just one of the ways different cultures, such as these highlanders from Papua New Guinea, distinguish themselves--and, perhaps, limit gene flow. Credit: Bruno Cossa/Grand Tour/Corbis Culture Shock May Explain Similarity Between Humans By Ann Gibbons Sc ...
Pompeii family's final hours reconstructed Not all residents were killed by the devastating wave of gas and rock Claudio Scarpati After the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, many Pompeiians fled into the streets ...