04/05/2019
Dr. Bortrum
Celebration of a Birthday and a Mammogram
Bortrum gets a mammogram. Russians add elements to the Periodic Table.
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03/06/2019
Dr. Bortrum
Ketchup and a Moon Rock
How Pittsburgh's Henry Heinz helped make our food safer and tastier. A 4-billion year old rock from Earth found on the Moon?
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02/08/2019
Dr. Bortrum
Pittsburgh and Starzl
Fond memories of Pittsburgh. Thomas Starzl's legacy.
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01/02/2019
Dr. Bortrum
Some Things Fly By; Others Crash
Exploring beyond Pluto. A new dwarf planet. A visit from an object older than Earth. A breakthrough of 2018.
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12/07/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Searching for Cures and Astronomical Objects
Medical topics and astronomical findings such as galaxies and meteorite craters. Possible cause of partial global cooling?
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11/01/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Aging Nobel Winner and Spacecraft
Bell Labs researcher Arthur Ashkin, 96, wins Nobel Prize in Physics. Kepler's planet-hunting days are numbered. Asteroids the subject of past and current space missions.
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10/02/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Exploring a Tiny Brain
The tiny fruit fly brain has been sliced and examine with electron microscopy in great detail.
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09/01/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Some
Global warming might have been stopped? Hippos generate their own sunscreen - it's red.
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07/30/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Moons, Blazars and Spaceflight Debris
A dozen more moons around Jupiter. An ice cube captures flight of a neutrino. Astronauts scatter debris on way to space station.
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06/25/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Peggy (retired) and Curiosity (still working)
Peggy Whitson reflects on a Mars mission while the Curiosity rover keeps digging and sniffing away on Mars.
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05/20/2018
Dr. Bortrum
After a Fall
Bortrum falls and has some strange experiences involving nonexistent creatures and other items.
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04/02/2018
Dr. Bortrum
March Madness and Other Topics
Bortrum's weather problems. Revisiting vultures, climate change, Neandertal art, Musk's roadster, etc. A new organ?
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03/01/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Successful Frustrating Searches
Light pollution masks hitherto unseen galaxies. Bortrum tries to do his taxes.
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02/06/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Beetle Behaviors
Food choices, nourishing offspring and sex among various beetle species.
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01/03/2018
Dr. Bortrum
Looking Back a Year and More
Discover and Science top stories and s breakthrough. Neutron star merger the latter. Blending brains leads to clues as to why we're so smart.
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