Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication articles from April 2002

Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication archives from April 2002

Lover's rock. (insight).(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... This heart-shaped limestone formation wasn't built by geological forces. It was built by animals. It is part of a much bigger formation, located in Earth's Southern Hemisphere, that is the longest of its kind in the world. Mindstretch:...

Yesterday once more: 75 years of Current Science.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... September 14-18, 1936. Current Science encouraged its readers to become members of the Yellow Nose Club. Medical researchers had formed the club in an effort to stop the spread of polio, a crippling infectious disease. The researchers had...

Octopus's garden: Current Science editor Rene Ebersole went scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica to help a scientist learn more about the native octopuses there. (Life)(Cover Story).
April 12, 2002... I'm anxiously waiting beneath warm, blue tropical water for the creature to ooze from its den. My heart pounds as one purplish, sucker-lined arm emerges from under a rock. Then another arm emerges, and another, and another. Then comes a...

Rumble in the jungle: hundreds of thousands flee a raging mountain in eastern Congo. (Earth).
April 12, 2002... Running in high heels can be a killer. So can a volcanic eruption. In January, Laurence Kangeshenge found herself in a pair of 4-inch-high heels fleeing a huge eruption in the African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ...

Robo G.I. Joe: soldiers may one day be half human, half machine. (Physical).
April 12, 2002... If the U.S. Army could recruit a comic-book superhero to join troops in battle, who might it be? Superman, with his X-ray vision and superhuman hearing, might make an indestructible spy. Wonder Woman, with her strength, supersonic speed, and...

Lion adopts antelope. (discoveries).(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... NAIROBI--A strange adoption happened in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve in January. A female lion found a baby oryx, whose mother had abandoned it to search for food, and took the infant under her care. An oryx is a type of antelope that has...

Black holes for dummies. (discoveries).(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Black holes are superpowerful vacuum cleaners in outer space that suck in all the matter around them. Imagine encountering such a monster here on Earth. Stefano Liberati, a physicist at the University of Maryland, is pursuing...

Smart bandages detect infections. (discoveries).(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... ROCHESTER, N.Y.--You're out riding one day when your bicycle hits a pothole and sends you flying. What should you do about the nasty cut on your arm? In the not-so-distant future, you might put a "smart bandage" on it, then wait for it to tell...

Bad vibes cripple boy's hand. (discoveries).(hand-arm vibration syndrome )(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... LIVERPOOL, England--Do your hands ever get tired and stiff from overdoing video games? A 15-year-old boy in England used his Sony PlayStation so much, he developed an unusual medical condition. When cold, the boy's fingers turned white and...

The sci-triv game: have fun learning about science.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2002... Want to play a game of science trivia? See how many points you can win by correctly answering the following questions. To find your score, give yourself 10 points each time you get the first question right, 20 points for each second question,...

Bend your mind. (Optricks).
April 12, 2002... Distribute the numbers 1 through 9 in the grid so that when you subtract the central number in any horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line of three from the outer two numbers, the answer is always the same. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ANSWER...