Cocoa Futures
For three years, molecular biologist Mark Guiltinan has been perfecting a system for making better cocoa plants: lots of them, and quickly. But that’s labwork. In Trinidad, Guiltinan and his students got a rare chance to share what they have learned — and get a taste of cocoa-growing in the field.

Life on the Rocks
Biogeochemistry — the study of how microbes influence the chemical cycles of the Earth — asks questions that require an interdisciplinary approach. So how do you get the microbiologists, engineers, soil scientists, and geochemists talking to each other? Start with graduate students. A big grant from the National Science Foundation helps.

Lost Highway
While some people cruise down the Information Superhighway, others have yet to get in the car. Is equal Internet access a basic American right? More than that: It is essential to the very functioning of our democracy.

The Last of the Devil's Music
The blues were life force, survival, the vibrant oral history of a people. But the blues, Clyde Woods says, have the blues. Commercialized, co-opted, and rendered respectable: Can the music still speak to the soul? Last summer at University Park, scholars gathered to bury the blues … and to play them.


The Critical Point



This Little Piggy


Flowering
How Plants Expand
Knocking the World on Its Side
Playing for Safety
Green Roofs
The Lean Green Cycling Machine
Patterns of Hate
"That’ll Teach You"
Answering Einstein

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Telling Science The Arboretum Left Out "Judith Twice Loved"