SciFri 7.8.05: WiFi in a nutshell
WiFi wireless technology is coming to Minneapolis. Actually, it's already here. We look at what it is, where it is and where it's going.

SciFri 7.1.05: Charlotte and her children
Probably no creature has inspired more pure revulsion than the spider. But spiders are simply small, sometimes amazing predators that will leave us alone if we don't bother them. Find out which ones are sharing your space.

SciFri 6.24.05: Rocks of ages
A geological tour of the Twin Cities reveals the remains of sandy tropical beaches, long-buried river valleys, and waterfalls that wouldn't stay put. Find out how the land of 10,000 lakes got where it is today.

SciFri 6.17.05: Stem cell research: from crosshairs to crossroads
Federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research have caused some states to seek other means of funding such work. Here are a primer on stem cells and some reasons why U of M researchers want to expand research on these intriguing cells.

SciFri 5.13.05: A century of relativity
On the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of relativity, we thought it would be fun to look at the theory and some of its fascinating--not to mention mind-boggling--implications.

SciFri 4.1.05: Land of snow and ice?
Minnesota geology is similar to that of Canadian bedrock that has yielded diamonds on a par with the world's finest. Perhaps one day the land of sky-blue water will produce stones of ice-white brilliance.

SciFri 3.25.05: The adolescent mind
When we're born, our brains are, in a way, just getting started. Development continues well into our 20s or even 30s. A brain in transition can lead adolescents to exhibit both good traits, such as multilingualism, or bad, such as an inability to control emotions.

SciFri 3.18.05: Lighting the Dark Ages--ancient Arab and Persian scholars
While Europe lay cloaked in the Dark Ages, the light of science and learning burnes bright in the Arab world, resulting in discoveries that underlie much of today's math and science.

SciFri 3.4.05: Time and tides
Between 50 million and 100 million years ago, a Mars-sized body smashed into our young planet, knocking a tremendous amount of material into the atmosphere. That material became the moon, and we've had an intimate relationship with it ever since.

SciFri 2.18.05: DNA in the courtroom
DNA evidence has exonerated or helped convict countless people since 1985, when it was first developed as an identification technique. The power of DNA analysis rests on its ability to detect not whole genes, but small quirks in our DNA that identify us as surely as our faces.

SciFri 2.11.05: Color me essential
Besides just being beautiful, the colors in nature are there for a reason. The survival of everything depends on them.

SciFri 1.28.05
It's all about low carbs these days, but what about the forgotten fats? Too much of the wrong kind can kill us, but mostly, we can?t live without them.

SciFri 1.21.05
Life depends on the simple molecule we call water. Without it, nothing on Earth could exist. It's mysterious and behaves in ways that confound the laws of science.