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Science: Environment

The problem faced by local fishermen is part surplus, part shortage. The answer may be in a high-tech fishing net: The Eliminator Trawl.

Ted Sanford hasn't paid for electricity in 25 years. And his house is pretty swanky. How does he do it?

It was another bad season for clammers in Ipswich after record rainfall forces the closure of clam beds.

Coyotes are on the prowl in Jamestown. So is Numi Mitchell.



The Rest


New records, used records, old records that have never been opened, records in piles without sleeves, records meticulously wrapped in cellophane, really bad LPs for a quarter each, ridiculously expensive 45s -- yes, some of us still get very excited about vinyl,


A desert in Rhode Island? For some, it's not water, but food that's scarce: Food Desert, Nowhere to Stop and Shop.

Flying loop-de-loops in a stunt plane over Narragansett Bay after drinking nothing but 16 oz. of coffee might make you sick. Who would've guessed?



Why would a high school senior who was accepted at MIT and Stanford choose, instead to go to a college that didn't have a completed campus, much less accreditation?  It seemed to be the right decision; the first class graduates from Olin College of Engineering.
Science:
Other

What does a picture sound like? Marcia Smilack is a photographer with synesthesia, a neurological condition that links her senses together in fantastic ways.


The date of Easter changes yearly, but why? How is it calculated? And what does it have to do with the Scientific Revolution?

Music can move you, it can inspire you, and it can change your mood, but can it be used as therapy for serious disorders?


Hadrons, Bosons and Rap Songs; the Large Hadron Collider goes online.

Satellites, missiles, spaceships and more;
Atlantis returns amid eclipse and missile launch.



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