05/27/2010
Dr. Bortrum
What's in Your DNA?
Does your genome harbor some Neandertal DNA? What about huge amounts of DNA from viral encounters?
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04/30/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Big Projects Working Fine
The Hubble Telescope, Large Hadron Collider and National Ignition Facility all working well after initial problems or skepticism
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03/30/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Mostly Water
Watery weather and water purification
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02/25/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Dino Color and Snow Talk
Researchers color a dinosaur and firm up the link between birds and dinosaurs
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01/28/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Non-Plant Partnerships
Lichens are not plants; neither are mushrooms
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12/31/2009
Dr. Bortrum
A Fond Farewell - or Not?
Bortrum's last regularly scheduled column. There may be more?
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12/10/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Music, Pigs and Carbon
A proud grandparent; pigs and a mirror; graphene and nanodiamonds
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11/27/2009
Dr. Bortrum
More on Water and Dinosaurs
Gallons of water on the moon; a dinosaur with too many wings?
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11/12/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Number 500 and Counting Down
500th column prompts reflection; Bortrum to be retired next month
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10/29/2009
Dr. Bortrum
New Planets and an Old Relative
32 new planets reported; a 4 million-year-old fossil upsets prevailing view of human evolution
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10/15/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Recognitions
Nobel awards and an interesting lunch
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10/01/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Poetic Entanglement and Distant Water
Quantum entanglement poetry and water on Moon and Mars
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09/18/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Is Common Sense Possible?
Can we throw out some of the weirdness of quantum mechanics?
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09/17/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Missed Deadline
Column will be posted tomorrow
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09/03/2009
Dr. Bortrum
Deluded Insects
Tricky orchids seduce insects into romantic escapades
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