Roxanne Palmer

Roxanne has liked science ever since she started watching "Bill Nye the Science Guy" on Saturday mornings over a bowl of sucrotic O's. She especially likes writing about dinosaurs, climate change and evolution. In college, she studied English literature but still managed to put in time in the greenhouse as a botany lab assistant and in the pool for varsity water polo. When not writing about science, she moonlights as a cartoonist and illustrator.

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3-D Printing: Plastic Guns Should Be The Least Of Our Worries
May 24 2013 10:22 PM

The perils of 3-D printing extend far beyond plastic guns: counterfeit military parts, drugs on demand and chemical weapons are in the offing.
NYC Bike-Sharing Prompts Safety Concerns Over Novice Cyclists
May 23 2013 5:04 PM

Will inexperienced cyclists flood the Big Apple?
White Tiger's Genetic Secret Unlocked By Scientists [PHOTOS]
May 23 2013 12:06 PM

Making a regular tiger into a white tiger is as simple as changing a single gene.
Squishy Robots Evolve Inside Computers At Cornell University
May 22 2013 12:43 PM

To make more robust and adaptable robots, researchers at Cornell are letting an evolutionary computer algorithm take the wheel.
NASA Gets A Craving For A 3D-Printed Pizza
May 21 2013 4:08 PM

3D-printed food could feed astronauts on long space journeys, tailor snacks to your diet and even make bug protein palatable.
How Strong Was The Oklahoma Tornado, In Historical Terms?
May 21 2013 11:38 AM

The twister that struck Moore, Okla., was a violent one. Did climate change play a role?
Many Children Feared Dead In Oklahoma School
May 20 2013 5:20 PM

A massive tornado devastated Moore, Okla., destroying an elementary school.
'Mad Men' Experiments With Amphetamines
May 20 2013 4:46 PM

Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce employees got all hopped up on "vitamin shots" on Sunday.
Why So Many US Tornadoes All Of A Sudden?
May 20 2013 4:05 PM

Weather experts say the sudden outburst of tornado activity is actually more of a return to normalcy after a relatively quiet season thus far.
'Game of Thrones' Recap: 'Second Sons'
May 20 2013 7:02 AM

Daenerys tries to woo Yunkai's sellswords away; Melisandre extracts the "king's blood" she needed; Tyrion and Sansa tie the knot.
LGBT Community Rallies After Greenwich Village Murder
May 19 2013 5:14 PM

The murder of a gay man in Greenwich Village is the latest incident in a flare-up of anti-gay violence in New York.
Obama To Address Al Qaeda, Drones, Guantanamo In Speech
May 19 2013 3:13 PM

The planned speech on antiterrorism policy may let the U.S. president reframe the national debate after an embarrassing week of scandals.