- Originally published on September 11, 2019 10:09 am Instructor Graham Dunne is holding up some printouts with faces on them. He tells his students they’re smaller than real heads. “Here’s some useless knowledge from being a sniper,” he says. “The average human head is 6 inches across by 10 inches high.
- Originally published on July 25, 2019 9:17 pm The Mountain West featured heavily in a House Natural Resources Committee hearing Thursday looking into issues of scientific integrity in the Interior Department. During the hearing, called “When Science Gets Trumped: Scientific Integrity at the Department of the Interior,” scientists detailed how the department has retaliated against
- Originally published on May 30, 2019 4:34 pm This post was updated May 28, 2019 at 9:15 p.m. to include the leastest outbreak numbers and an additional infographic. Measles have reached the highest numbers in 25 years, with more than 900 cases reported so far to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Originally published on March 1, 2019 9:06 am The closest that Travis Rupp came to getting fired, he says, was the time he tried to make chicha. The recipe for the Peruvian corn-based beer, cobbled together from bits of pre-Incan archaeological evidence, called for chewed corn partially fermented in spit.
- Originally published on February 25, 2019 11:17 am Researchers studying wild black bears have found that eating human food could have a deep impact on the animals’ bodies. Ecologists tracked 30 wild black bears around Durango, Colorado over a few summers and winters. They also tested their hair and blood.