On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon at Clark Kerr Stadium, first year super-squad Sparkle Motion rallied to defeat second year all-star team Shadow Pricing 9-5 in a game which many analysts have described as “a passing of the torch.”

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A 2003 study from Germany’s Landau University may provide some clues to the mystery behind our nation’s disappearing honeybee population. Landau’s Jochen Kuhn placed the receivers to cellular phones within honeybee hives, exposing the bees to the radiation that the phones give off. Kuhn found that as many as [...]

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Assuming that we’re sexually active, 80% of us will be infected with one or more strain of human papillomavirus (HPV) at some point in our lives. HPV does not have negative health impacts for men; but 10 of the 30 detectable genital HPV strains (there are dozens of undetectable strains) [...]

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The Supreme Court today handed down its judgment on Massachusetts v EPA, the first case regarding climate change the Court has heard. At issue in the case was whether or not the EPA is required by its enabling legislation to monitor and regulate automobile emissions.

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An alarming, potentially disastrous agricultural mystery has unfolded quietly over the past few months. Honeybees - the United States’ chief pollinator - have been leaving their hives in droves, never to return. Beekeepers across the country have declared up to 70% losses in their colonies, and there is currently [...]

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The last three years have seen a notable spike in homicide and gun violence in the Bay Area. In 2005, San Francisco’s homicide rate was the highest it had been in more than 10 years, and Oakland’s first-half 2006 murder rates were 78% higher than first-half 2005 (the most recent [...]

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Certain objects of public dialogue - such as “supply-side” economics, or whether or not human overpopulation will have catastrophic results - rise and fall cyclically, coming and going and coming back once more, as if they had never been discussed in the first place. Another of these is the wisdom of [...]

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Five international interests working to protect and more stringently regulate the world’s Bluefin Tuna stocks meet this week in Kobe, Japan to agree on strategies which they hope will lead to more sustainable fishing practices. Bluefin Tuna has long been popular in Japan as an ingredient in sushi and sashimi, [...]

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A North Dakota farmer serving in the North Dakota state legislature as a Republican has submitted the paperwork needed to make himself the nation’s first industrial hemp producer. Rep. David Monson (R-Osnabrock) filed an application with the state’s Agriculture Department to cultivate about 10 acres of the crop. [...]

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