Mad About Science: Extinction event
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
We’ve all learned about one major mass extinction event in school. The end of the dinosaurs, gone in a singular dramatic flash!
That’s not exactly …
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Mad About Science: 7B before people
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
I first learned about the Great Missoula Floods when I was in elementary school in the ’90s. I listened in wide-eyed wonder to my teacher …
Mad About Science: Hummingbirds
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Hummingbirds are unique creatures. They are capable of hovering, similar to many winged insects, and they feed from flowers similarly to bees. What you might …
Mad About Science: Flubber, gloop and slime
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
We’ve been conditioned to think that gooey, slimy, sticky things are gross, and it’s true! A slimy surface is usually indicative of a bacterial film …
Mad About Science: Ponderosa pine
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Living in 7B, you can look in virtually any cardinal direction and spot a ponderosa pine. They are massive trees with thick trunks that can …
Mad About Science: More wild ocean facts
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Akin to the tide rolling in, I’ve returned with more weird and wild facts about the ocean. We already know about lava vents hot enough …
Mad About Science: Wild ocean facts
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
If you suffer from thalassophobia — a fear of large bodies of water and what could lurk below — now is a great time to …
Mad About Science: The moon
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Staff
Planet Earth’s closest celestial neighbor has a lot in common with the big blue marble we call home. While it’s true that there isn’t any …
Mad About Science: Big brain, little paragraph
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Once a week you open the Reader, get to this article and probably do one of two things: eagerly anticipate what new information you …
Mad About Science: Time
By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist
Time is a tricky topic. On the surface, we all know what time is: It’s a measurement of our day. So why do some days …
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