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San Francisco's Terra Infirma (June 3, 2004)
Ship to shore

Bionic Eyes (June 8, 2004)
Seeing is believing

Iris Scans (June 11, 2004)
A new angle on photo identification

Honey as Medicine (June 17, 2004)
Sweet relief

Microclimates (June 22, 2004)
Don't like the weather? Cross the street.

Most Recent Common Ancestors (June 25, 2004)
Eve, Charlemagne, and you

The Holographic Paradigm (June 26, 2004)
The way the universe really works?

Temperate Rain Forests (June 29, 2004)
Trees of life

Oil Sands (July 2, 2004)
Alberta's tarry treasure

Athabasca Sand Dunes (July 3, 2004)
Saskatchewan's shifting sands

The Tactile Dome (July 5, 2004)
Getting the feel of the Exploratorium

Synesthesia (July 8, 2004)
Making sense of shared senses

Robots that Smell (July 9, 2004)
Artificial noses and beyond

Traveler's Palms (July 11, 2004)
Compass, canteen, and canopy in one

Red Tide (July 18, 2004)
A beautiful and/or deadly aquatic phenomenon

Grass Photographs (July 21, 2004)
Photosynthetic art

White LEDs (July 22, 2004)
How to make a blue light special

Helioseismology (July 24, 2004)
Listening to the inside of the Sun

Snow Crusts (July 26, 2004)
A few words about the surface of snow

Mantle Convection (July 30, 2004)
Currents under the earth's crust

Sugar Alcohols (August 4, 2004)
The quest for healthier sweeteners

The Story of Phineas Gage (August 5, 2004)
Brain damage and personality

Mercury Retrograde (August 9, 2004)
The all-purpose astrological excuse

The Pluto Controversy (August 11, 2004)
Defining and counting planets

The Kepler Mission (August 13, 2004)
Searching for other habitable planets

One-Log House (August 15, 2004)
Northern California's famous redwood attraction

Measuring the Speed of Light (August 22, 2004)
Fun with mirrors and math

Furlongs Per Fortnight (August 24, 2004)
Mix-and-match units

Decimal Time (August 25, 2004)
Solutions for people who need 100 hours in a day

Scruples and Stones (August 26, 2004)
A pebble for your thoughts

The Equation of Time (August 27, 2004)
When what you mean is not apparent

Quantifying Despair and Depression (August 28, 2004)
Keep swimming

The Truth About Bananas (August 30, 2004)
Fingering the world's most popular tropical fruit

Ultrasonic Mosquito Repellers (September 5, 2004)
The convenient, pocket-sized, battery-powered hoax

Silicone Baking Products (September 10, 2004)
The quiet revolution

Sedona's Energy Vortexes (September 20, 2004)
The world's most popular invisible tourist attraction

Perpetual Motion Machines (September 24, 2004)
The endless quest for free energy

Deyrolle (September 28, 2004)
Taxidermy heaven in Paris

Modern Mummies (September 30, 2004)
Resurrecting the art of arrested decay

Flywheel Batteries (October 9, 2004)
A new spin on energy storage

Anechoic Chambers (October 15, 2004)
The sound of silence

Spontaneous Human Combustion (October 22, 2004)
Answering the burning questions

Pennsylvania Coal Fires (October 23, 2004)
Heat under the street

Carbon Dating (October 26, 2004)
Decay rates create debates

Tachyons (October 29, 2004)
Tracking the elusive faster-than-light particle

The Oropendola (November 7, 2004)
Wacky gymnast of the bird world

Foucault's Pendulum (November 8, 2004)
Low-tech proof of Earth's rotation

Spotted Handfish (November 20, 2004)
Fish that walk

Sinkholes (December 2, 2004)
Losing ground

Sea Monkeys (December 4, 2004)
New life for an old fad

Halcyon Days (December 14, 2004)
Why tranquility is for the birds

Memetics (December 16, 2004)
The science of idea propagation

Carbon Sequestration (December 17, 2004)
Greenhouse gas disposal techniques

Printing Skin Tissue (January 15, 2005)
Human organs from 3-D printers

Tsunami Warning Systems (January 20, 2005)
Looking for the next big wave

Megaplumes (January 22, 2005)
The amazing underwater cyclones

Magellanic Penguins (January 24, 2005)
The colorful features of monochrome birds

Caleta Valdés (January 25, 2005)
Defying continental drift

The Argentinosaurus (January 28, 2005)
Contender for the world's largest dinosaur

Poison Dart Frogs (January 30, 2005)
Pretty to look at, but don't put them in your mouth

Leaf Cutter Ants (January 31, 2005)
A different kind of deforestation

Crows that Make Tools (February 1, 2005)
The brains behind the beaks

Saint Bernards (February 3, 2005)
Rescuing the rescuers

The Hidden Lives of Sloths (February 4, 2005)
Symbiosis in slow motion

Non-Human Farmers (February 5, 2005)
Animal agriculture

Titanium Art (February 16, 2005)
The colorful process of anodization

Rebreathers (February 17, 2005)
Taking scuba to new depths

Designer Pets (February 18, 2005)
The next frontier of genetic engineering

Leeches Reconsidered (February 19, 2005)
Modern medicine sucks it up

Pan del Indio (February 20, 2005)
The little orange beech balls

The Perito Moreno Glacier (February 21, 2005)
Breaking the ice rules

Kopi Luwak (February 28, 2005)
The world's strangest and most expensive coffee

Edible Gold (March 3, 2005)
The gourmet and the alchemist

Les Baux (March 6, 2005)
Medieval ghost town and mineral namesake

Tufa (March 7, 2005)
The strange rocks with the funny name

The Stone Balls of Costa Rica (March 8, 2005)
Mystery spheres as lawn ornaments

The Coriolis Force (March 24, 2005)
Taking an urban legend for a spin

Disappearing Island Nations (March 25, 2005)
Sinking feelings and global warming

Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion (March 26, 2005)
Motors without moving parts

Weather Station Kurt (March 27, 2005)
Nazi weather forecasts from Canada

Plate Clouds (March 28, 2005)
Alien spacecraft hidden in plain sight?

Jumping Spiders (March 30, 2005)
The lovable, multi-talented octopedes

Orgone (March 31, 2005)
The strange theories of Wilhelm Reich

Fire Pistons (April 3, 2005)
The primitive hi-tech fire starters

Vegetable Oil as Diesel Fuel (April 4, 2005)
Fries and a fill-up

Microbial Fuel Cells (April 5, 2005)
Electricity from bugs

Ball Lightning (April 9, 2005)
Unsatisfactorily identified flying objects

Water Freezing and Boiling Myths (April 16, 2005)
Legend, science, and common sense

SETI (April 20, 2005)
The real-life quest to find E.T.

Clepsydras (April 26, 2005)
Watching time flow with water clocks

The Longitude Problem (April 27, 2005)
Finding your way around the world with a watch

Leap Seconds (April 29, 2005)
Time keeps on slippin'

Bakelite (May 2, 2005)
The Plastic Age

Space Pens (May 4, 2005)
What to use when your writing lacks gravity

Biodegradable Plastic (May 5, 2005)
The quest for impermanence

Sedna's Moon (May 9, 2005)
Mysteries of the solar system's most distant member

The Autogyro (May 10, 2005)
Taking the proto-helicopter for a spin

Passenger Pigeons (May 13, 2005)
The great American extinction

Operation Migration (May 15, 2005)
Follow that airplane!

Tree Tumbo (May 22, 2005)
Mystery plant of the desert

Bee Venom Therapy (May 23, 2005)
A stinging endorsement

Breathing Liquid (May 24, 2005)
The frontiers of human respiration

Coin Tossing (May 25, 2005)
Putting a new spin on randomness

The Coelacanth (May 28, 2005)
Re-historic fish

Saffron (May 29, 2005)
The ultimate culinary delicacy

Xena (June 5, 2006)
Troublemaker on the edge of the solar system

DNA Fingerprinting (June 14, 2006)
Not just for crime fighting

Solar Sails (June 19, 2006)
The next big thing in space travel

The Kakapo Parrot (July 7, 2006)
Staying alive despite its best efforts

Hubbert's Peak (July 17, 2006)
The controversial theory of Peak Oil

Quantized Time (July 21, 2006)
Split-second thinking

The Fata Morgana Effect (July 24, 2006)
Fairy castles in the air

Ischigualasto (July 26, 2006)
Triassic Park in Argentina

Polywater (August 9, 2006)
The new form of water that almost was

Lichtenberg Figures (August 14, 2006)
Artificial lightning fossils

Aquanomy (August 28, 2006)
The quest for the best bottled water

The Golden Spruce (September 11, 2006)
Tragic fall of a legendary tree

Churchill, Manitoba (September 18, 2006)
Polar bear capital of the world

Anopsology (September 27, 2006)
The raw facts about the raw-food movement

Rarely Blooming Plants (October 9, 2006)
The Titan Arum lily, the Kurinji plant, and the Talipot palm

Ethanol Batteries (November 17, 2006)
High-energy cocktails

Geysers (November 29, 2006)
Fragile spectacles

Mystery Park (December 1, 2006)
The theme park that aliens built

Ethogeology (February 13, 2007)
Animals as seismographs

Entomophagy (February 21, 2007)
Insects as food

The Wallace Line (February 23, 2007)
Evolution and continental drift

Non-Newtonian Fluids (February 28, 2007)
When liquids behave like solids

Chinooks (March 7, 2007)
Snow-eating winds of the Rockies

The Tongue-Eating Louse (March 9, 2007)
A revolting-but-true fish story

The Influence of Color on Taste Perception (March 19, 2007)
Palette vs. palate

Tulipomania (April 6, 2007)
The quest for the perfect tulip

Lichens (April 30, 2007)
A tale of two organisms

Coffee Decaffeination Processes (June 15, 2007)
Less buzz for your buck

The PB&J Campaign (July 18, 2007)
The environmental impact of lunch

Mistpouffers (July 25, 2007)
The mystery of phantom thunder

Cow Sharing (July 30, 2007)
Getting the milk for free

Cochineal (August 10, 2007)
Insect-based color

Starlite (January 21, 2008)
The mystery miracle heatproof plastic

The Discovery of Radium (January 30, 2008)
Marie Curie's miracle cure