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This month in Odyssey.(Science Scoops)

May 01, 2007; ... The velvet blackness of night is mysterious ... and it can be scary. What really happens when the Sun's light goes out and we go to bed? A whole world of nocturnal creatures, such as the pallid bat below and on our cover, ...

Disappearing act.(beehives)

May 01, 2007; ... Bee-ware! There's a buzz around that honeybee counts throughout the United States are ...well, excuse the mixed metaphor ... dropping like flies! According to a Feb. 12, 2007, CNN Science & Story Web report, beekeepers in 22 states have reported losses of up to 80 percent of their ...

Help on the way!(honeybees)

May 01, 2007; ... If the vanished commercial honeybees don't come back to their hives, there's hope on the horizon. As reported in the January 2006 issue of Science News, scientists at five bee laboratories, operated by the United States Department of Agriculture, are working with various species of ...

Did you see the comet?(Surprise!)

May 01, 2007; ... It never seems to fail. If astronomers tell you to go outside because there's going to be a bright comet visible, chances are that by the time clouds and weather move away, the comet has either set, faded, or dipped below the horizon. And that's sort of the way it was when Comet McNaught ...

... And that's just the tip of the tail!(Science Scoops)

May 01, 2007; ... Now, get this: When Comet McNaught headed south for the winter (that s a joke), Northern Hemisphere observers either hopped on a jet and headed south with it or just sat back in their recliners and watched the images multiply on various Web sites (such as www.spaceweather.com). ...

Speaking of comets ...(Science Scoops)

May 01, 2007; ... Did you know that you might be made of comet stuff? Well, sort of, anyway. Here's the scoop. In February 1999, NASA's Stardust spacecraft examined Comet Wild 2 up close and personal. Then, after flying through the comet's tail, Stardust headed back home with a payload of thousands of tiny ...

Who built stonehenge?(Science Scoops)

May 01, 2007; ... How about the Village People? Well, that was sort of a joke. But listen to this: Although we don't have a list of the names of the builders, Mike Parker Pearson, a professor of archaeology at Sheffield University in the United Kingdom, told New Scientist magazine reporters that he at least ...

Sensing the night.(Short story)

May 01, 2007; ... IT WAS A SPRING EVENING IN NEW JERSEY, and Juana didn't want to go in for dinner. Last night she'd seen a raccoon in the yard, and she wanted to see if it would come back. Her older brother, Romero, had already called her twice. "Juana, now!!" he called with finality. ...

Night vision: why you can see in the dark.

May 01, 2007; ... Eyes work by converting light energy into nerve impulses. These nerve impulses are sent to the brain, where we "make sense" of them. A certain pattern of light is a "tree," another pattern is "my dad," and so on. An eye functions a lot like a camera. Light passes through the ...

Pollinators: working the night shift: honeybees and fuzzy bumblebees buzz softly as they travel from flower to flower, gathering sweet nectar on a warm summer's day. Ahhh ... doesn't it remind you of summer vacation!

May 01, 2007; ... BEES ARE ALWAYS FUN TO WATCH. However, their work has a far greater importance than to entertain us on lazy summer afternoons. Bees are the most efficient and commonly noticed floral "pollen movers." They are one of many species that provide essential "pollination services" for our crops ...

Build your own bee condo.(ACTIVITY TO DISCOVER: OPEN HOUSE)

May 01, 2007; ... Here are several things that you can do to help protect, conserve, and raise native bee pollinators where you live. Remember that almost all of these bees are nonsocial and not defensive like those in big honeybee colonies. They will offer you the chance to observe pollinators in action ...

Days of our lives.(Short story)

May 01, 2007; ... DARKNESS FALLS. A MOUSE AWAKENS AND TIMIDLY SLIPS OUT OF ITS HOLE IN A BARN WALL TO LOOK FOR FOOD. Without making a sound, a barn owl sweeps down from its perch and snatches the mouse in its claws. Hundreds of big brown bats swarm into the night sky from the barn's loft to feast on insects ...

Batty about bats!

May 01, 2007; ... DON'T YOU HATE IT WHEN a mosquito buzzes around your head at night when you're trying to sleep? Bzzzzzz ... Or when the pesky critters join your camp-out, leaving your body laced with itchy lumps? Imagine what it would be like if there were millions more mosquitoes! Or, worse ...

"Vampiro": one of those big bats that they call Vampires had got a her in the night, and, what with his gorge and the vein left open, there wasn't enough blood in her to let her stand up ...

May 01, 2007; ... SO WROTE BRAM STOKER in his classic 1897 horror tale Dracula, a chilling account of a bloodthirsty demon who could change bodily into--among other things--a vampire bat. Traveling from his castle in Transylvania (a setting based on a historical region in Romania), Dracula would stalk the ...

Here's your personal bat mobile.(Activity To Discover)

May 01, 2007; ... Bats are a wonderful example of night feeders, and here's a great way to add them to your very own room! Or, how about making a gift for a younger friend or sibling? Bats live on every continent, except Antarctica. The largest megabats ("big bats") are flying fox ...

Coral reefs: the changing of the guard.

May 01, 2007; ... Wearing fins, mask, and snorkel, I dropped off the bow of the catamaran Teralani into the crystal-blue water of Honolua Bay, a state marine preserve along the western shore of the Hawaiian island of Maui. Below the boat, the bottom was deep and featureless, but a short swim brought me to a ...

Creature from the black lagoon.

May 01, 2007; ... IT'S APPROACHING NOON ONE FINE FEBRUARY MORNING in South Florida, and I'm in Everglades National Park watching an American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) "sleeping" on a slab of limestone near the swamp's edge. For hours now, I've been watching a slit behind the alligator's eye ...

Poor Pythagoras.(Brain Strain)

May 01, 2007; ... Zeus--a creepy, crepuscular owl--descends to the Earth in search of Pythagoras, the vampire bat. Unlike other birds of prey, owls have virtually noiseless flight, the butterfly-like flapping of their wings being muffled by the velvety surface of their flight feathers. Wise ...

Hoo's eating what?(Kids Can ... Do Amazing Science)

May 01, 2007; ... Imagine you want to be a biologist who studies owls. You're wondering what an owl eats. But no one you ask seems to know. Then, one spring day you are walking in the woods at about dusk. You look up into a tree and see an owl's nest high above you. You look down and see a pellet ...

Dark dweelers: the mysterious gopher tortoises an interview with biologist David Rostal.(People To Discover)(Interview)

May 01, 2007; ... IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN A GOPHER TORTOISE (Gopberus polypbemus), that's because they've gone underground! These roughly footlong, land-dwelling tortoises live only in upland habitats throughout the coastal plain of the southeastern United States, where they spend up to 85 percent of their ...

Star chart.(astronomical charts)

May 01, 2007 ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 9:30 p.m. on May 15. Useful all month (except for planet positions), the chart is also accurate for 10:30 p.m. on May 1 and 8:30 p.m. on May 31. To use the All-Sky Chart, first use a compass to find the ...

Planets in motion.(STARGAZING Comic)(Cartoon)

May 01, 2007; ... GREETINGS, GREETINGS, FELLOW STARGAZERS. GO OUTSIDE AT DUSK AND YOU'LL SEE THE PLANET VENUS HIGH IN THE WEST AND SATURN, THE RINGED WONDER, HIGH IN THE SOUTHWEST! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ACCORDING TO KEPLER'S SECOND LAW OF PLANETARY MOTION, THE CLOSER AN OBJECT IS TO ...

You've got mail!(Letter to the editor)

May 01, 2007; ... Dear ODYSSEY, In response to the Science Scoop "Got Stomach Flu? Hug Your Pet" [February 2007 issue], YES! I believe that hugging a pet really can reduce your chances of getting the stomach flu. I think this because the sensation of petting your cat or dog's fur usually causes ...

Untamed: Animals Around the World.(Untamed: Animals Around The World)(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)

May 01, 2007; ... Untamed: Animals Around the World photos by Steve Bloom; text by Christian Havard; drawings by Emmanuelle Zicot (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005) Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Not to mention monkeys, zebras, and giraffes, too. In the book Untamed: Animals Around the World, ...

Wheeee--thunk!(marsupials)

May 01, 2007; ... By day, groups sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) rest and nest together in leaf-lined tree holes. By night, these marsupials travel the forests of mainland Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea looking for food. Compact and furry, they are becoming popular in the United States as "pocket ...

Whatever goes wrong, Blair gets the blame - Easily a match for the Mahdi army

May 01, 2007; ... TEN years ago today, on my way to an election-night party, Inipped into an Islington branch of Odd-bins to buy some fizz. Thatafternoon, unfortunately, Londoners Diary had revealed my intentionto vote Lib-Dem. I was nearly lynched. Never mind that I lived in a Tory seat where the ...

A friend a day is worth Pounds 85k

May 01, 2007

Son of dissident who vanished wins Pounds 10,000 literature prize

May 01, 2007

LONDON PROTEST ; Nightmare on the Tube, train or buses? Contact us and tell transport bosses what they need to know

May 01, 2007

PICK OF THE NIGHT

May 01, 2007

Fears for quality shows as Channel 4's profits slump ; Chief calls for help to survive

May 01, 2007

Mixed boarding schools 'harm teenage girls'

May 01, 2007