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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Send Your Haiku To Mars
May 03 2013 12:21 PM

NASA is soliciting haiku poems to pack onboard the Maven orbiter, which is heading to Mars in November.
The Dilemma Of When To Delist An Endangered Species
May 02 2013 5:34 PM

Taking a charismatic species like the bald eagle or the gray wolf off the endangered list is a process fraught with tension.
Scientists: Kiera Wilmot Punishment Doesn't Fit Actions
May 02 2013 3:31 PM

Many scientists and teachers say Florida school officials and prosecutors are overreacting to a 16-year-old's botched science experiment.
Medicaid Study Finds Lack Of Immediate Health Improvements
May 02 2013 12:42 PM

As U.S. states mull Medicaid expansion options, a new study offers a mixed review of the short-term impacts of the program for low-income people.
Breast Implants Might Hinder Cancer Detection: Study
May 01 2013 5:01 PM

Breast implants may indirectly lower a woman's odds for surviving breast cancer by interfering with a doctor's ability to catch the disease in the early stages.
Genetic Atlases Of Aggressive Leukemia, Uterus Lining Cancer Mapped
May 01 2013 3:23 PM

Researchers have compiled genetic atlases of DNA mutations associated with acute myeloid leukemia and endometrial cancer.
Boy Meets Atom In IBM's Molecular Stop-Motion Animation
May 01 2013 12:09 PM

By moving one carbon monoxide molecule at a time, researchers-turned-animators at IBM tell the story of a boy and his atomic pal.
Coloring In Dinosaur Skin With Particle Physics
April 30 2013 7:40 PM

Shooting a beam of infrared light at a bit of preserved hadrosaur skin may reveal some details about its color.
A New Way To Sniff Out Schizophrenia
April 30 2013 12:52 PM

Usually the biological traces of schizophrenia can only be found in brain cells taken after death, but it may be possible to go through the nose instead.
Cicada Wings Cleaned By "Jumping" Dewdrops
April 29 2013 5:16 PM

A cicada's legs are too short for it to scrub itself, but luckily, its wings are built to interact with dewdrops in a "self-cleaning" setup.
EU States Vote To Ban Pesticides Linked To Bee Decline
April 29 2013 3:03 PM

Neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides linked to colony collapse disorder, will likely be severely curtailed across Europe starting in December.
Massive Hurricane Discovered on Saturn's North Pole [PHOTOS]
April 29 2013 1:14 PM

A NASA spacecraft has found an astonishing storm that lies anchored to the north pole of Saturn.