Posts by Dr. Allen F. Bortrum

Swirly polarization pattern possibly due to dust? How to avoid a gorilla attack. Curiosity's been on Mars for a Martian year.

Starfish in deep trouble; a real fish gets inebriated

Earth-sized planet in habitable zone; eclipse that brightens star; another ocean in our solar system

South Pole telescope used to look at the first teensiest fraction of a second of the Big Bang; a promising result on hydrogen fusion in California

Memories of Mondale and Kiner; fruit flies in the fight against a variety of maladies.

A tough schedule controlling Curiosity; Opportunity still going strong after ten years - finds more evidence Mars could have been habitable.

Curiosity on Mars, immunotherapy fights cancer, and monarch butterflies in trouble.

Bell Labs colleagues Basu and Tanenbaum get awards for lithium battery and silicon transistor inventions

Bortrum finds an old co-worker; UV LEDs save turtles.

Decapitated worms re-grow their heads and seem to remember stuff they learned prior to ther beheadings.