Frontiers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PAGE

PLEASE NOTE: WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT THE LAST APPEARANCE OF THIS PAGE WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

Every Wednesday, students have the opportunity to read some cutting-edge information. The full page includes colored photos, a main story for discussion, and a technology column. There are also (usually) smaller "bytes" that pique readers' curiosity about this world of ours.

Upcoming Main Topics

April 2 Frogs

The frogs are croaking.

From Tampa to Tasmania, more and more frog species are joining the lists of threatened and endangered animals. Rocked by a great amphibian pandemic, frogs are disappearing in alarming numbers, say biologists who fear the worst: an ongoing wave of extinctions.

April 9 Bugs

Take a moment to give thanks for cockroaches and houseflies. They just might save your life someday.

The much-maligned insects are good at detecting harmful chemicals, viruses and other potential threats to people, said entomologist Karen Kester of Virginia Commonwealth University.

April 16 Worms

If Emily Gianfortoni offers you one of those takeout cartons that usually holds Chinese leftovers, listen closely to what she tells you to do with the contents.

More than likely, it's a starter kit for an environmentally efficient garbage-disposal system like the one she keeps at the foot of her basement stairs.

April 23 Diabetes

Marcia Crum was taking seven to eight shots of insulin a day and a shot of long-acting insulin at night, and her diabetes was still out of control.

More than 50 pounds overweight, she had many of the health problems that come with excess weight.

April 30 Sturgeon

Chris Hager was trying to surgically implant a high-tech transmitter into an ancient fish, but nature wasn't cooperating.

Hager, a marine biologist, stood in knee-deep water as he operated on the 3 1/2-foot Atlantic sturgeon, a bone-plated beast that looks like a cross between a shark and a stegosaurus.

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