<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/roman_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />Whale feces -- should you be forced to consider such matters -- probably conjures images of, well, whale-scale hunks of crud, heavy lumps that sink to the bottom. But most whales actually deposit waste that floats at the surface of the ocean, "very liquidy, a flocculent plume," says University of Vermont whale biologist, Joe Roman.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/pylonsunset_430x300.jpg" height="300" width="430" />Last March, the U.S. Congress heard testimony about a scientific study in the journal <em>Safety Science</em>. A military analyst worried that the paper presented a model of how an attack on a small, unimportant part of the U.S. power grid might, like dominoes, bring the whole grid down.
<img src="http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/images/features/riley_china_300x212.jpg" height="212" width="300" />When her plans fell through to pursue research for a book project in a primary school in China, music professor Patti Riley scrambled to find a new research setting in the country.
