Titanic Boa

Scientists have recovered fossils from the largest known snake in the world — a 60-million-year-old South American snake whose estimated size dwarfs today's anacondas and pythons. See the R&CA Abstracts section.

Internet Solar System

This image was created using an algorithm that provides a solar system-like vision of the Internet. The Internet Solar System. At the center are the most relevant Internet Service Providers, progressing to those located in the periphery of the network. (Image courtesy of Alex Vespignani). Read more....

Archaeology in the In-Between

Stacie King, who specializes in Mesoamerican archaeology, is working in the unexplored region of Nejapa, nestled in a fertile valley midway between the highland Valley of Oaxaca and the Pacific Ocean at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico. Read more. ....

Second Life

Research Professor Anne Massey goes “in world" to explore the possibilities of virtual environments for facilitating business and dramatically altering the future of collaboration.

What Our Genes Do

Genomicist Justen Andrews is helping to map the human genetic network in its entirety while also working to map a single pathway responsible for the development of sex cells in fruit flies. Taken together, Andrews’s research is part of a global effort in biology to uncover how genes shape the nature and development of life. Read more. ....

Stretching the Boundaries of Art

Using programs and tools she likens to the gadgets aboard the Star Trek Enterprise, visual artist Nicole Jacquard is pioneering the use of computerized techniques in the creative process. (Image: "Five Houses," by Nicole Jacquard, photo by Shelley Given) Read more....

Magnetic Resonance Music

Indiana University collaborators Jeffrey Hass, Elizabeth Shea, and Robert Shakespeare explore mind, body, and spirit in their multimedia production, The Nature of Human.

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