Today marks the first public appearance for Flocke–”Snowflake” in German–the polar bear cub taken away from her mother in January because caretakers at the Nuremburg City Zoo feared the mother would eat her. If you think one bear is a handful, try taking on a thousand. Learn how a northern Canadian town copes each October when hungry polar bears invade.

Today some of our most pressing political concerns are closely related to science. The economy, healthcare, and the global energy crisis are problems that scientific research can help solve. Yet many are concerned by lack of basic scientific knowledge in the general public. Watch a panel of leading scientists discuss the role of science in our society.

Over at The Wild Side, evolutionary biologist and blogger Olivia Judson describes her favorite animal: the shrimp goby. This little fish teams up with shrimp, sharing the shrimp’s burrow and earning its keep by guarding the entrance.

This week, Merck and Schering-Plough, the makers of popular cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia faced a new setback. The results of a new clinical trial indicated that these drugs, whose …

Anyone mounting an expedition up Mt. Everest knows they’re going to have to face the elements.
But investigative journalist Michael Kodas’ new book, High Crimes (read the first chapter …