In 2005, a spill of organic solvents from a uranium mill south of Canon city killed 40 ducks and geese. Now, however, the question is whether incidences of water pollution from the mine, owned by Cotter Corp. is behind a slew of health problems experienced by the local population.

First, I should tell you that the film is in Spanish, and if you can read, it’s worth watching. Oh, and it’s a math movie. So those who don’t like math or reading are better off renting Dumb and Dumber– but for everyone else, Fermat’s Room is a fantastic movie, full of suspense and deception.

“Art-Science?” hissed an anonymous opera-loving artist and dean at the City University of New York, when I asked if she would be going to see the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Dr. Atomic. “Science will only dilute true art. I expect it to bomb. I’ll read the review to confirm,” she snapped.

By Summer Ash

I didn’t expect to question my self-worth as an astronomer while watching the third Presidential debate last night, but that’s what happened.

Senator McCain’s relentless harping on Senator Obama for destroying “Joe the Plumber’s” American dream was just too much. Let me tell you about my American dream. It has to do with stars.

Around this time every year, scientists wring their hands hoping to win a Nobel prize–I know I was. Maybe next year. Even if I didn’t get the gold this year, I was pretty excited to hear about the Chemistry awardees–a three-way award between Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien for the discovery and characterization of green fluorescent protein (GFP). GFP was isolated from the jelly fish, Aequorea Victoria, and it has revolutionized the way biologists work.

Rain. Just because it falls on your roof doesn’t mean it’s yours. At least not in Colorado or Utah.
In these states, citizens or businesses that attempt to collect or store rainwater are in fact breaking the law. The overriding rule here is that of prior appropriation i.e. in order to have any rights to water you have to gain a state water right.

A “SNP” is a single nucleotide polymorphism. Within a genetically distinct population, i.e. people of a certain ethnicity, religion, or geographic region, there are several versions of the DNA sequence of any given gene that is almost identical, with the exception of one sequence unit at a specific site. This single nucleotide variation occurs in the population at observable frequencies.

Picture this: You’re a cell.

If you live in the Rocky Mountain States and have been feeling a little irritable or losing hair lately just blame the selenium in your water. In a recent report it was found that over 80% of the areas studied in the American West are suffering from highly toxic levels of selenium caused, primarily, by the mining industry. So ubiquitous is the problem that it is causing the citizens, lawmakers, and environmentalists, to question whether the Clean Water Act, and the infrastructure which enforces it, is adequate in protecting and …