Post-Gazette NOW - Health, Science & Environment

Research builds case to bring back bees

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The mysterious decline in honeybees has generated renewed interest into finding new ways to boost bee numbers. (Yesterday)

Milky Way measures up

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. (Yesterday)

Stargazing: Orion and the stars of winter

Orion and the brilliant winter stars have taken over the southern sky around 10 p.m. (01/05/2009)

Stars of winter

Andy Starnes / Post-Gazette

The PG's Mark Roth undergoes an fMRI brain scan as part of an analysis to identify brain activity linked to thinking about certain words. He is on left behind screened glass in MRI room. His scan is on right.

CMU knows what's on your mind

Two hours before, I had been lying inside a brain scanner, concentrating on individual words. Now, with remarkable accuracy, a computer program was telling me what I had been thinking. (01/04/2009)

	PG video: Reading the mind
	Brain scanning
	Preparing for the scan
	Dr. Marcel Just

Carnegie gets big donation from hospital

With Children's Hospital moving to Lawrenceville this spring and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History facing constraints on research funding, Dr. Edward V. Prochownik's mind began to roll. (01/03/2009)

Friday, January 2, 2009