May 5th, 2008 · There's a theory that birds can "see" a magnetic field because of a chemical reaction in their eyes. Peter Hore, a physical chemist at the University of Oxford, thinks he has replicated this reaction in the lab.
Mar 14th, 2008 · Major League Baseball is hoping to follow the National Basketball Association's strong lead into the Chinese market. But can basketball's resounding success be replicated?
Feb 20th, 2008 · Fresh Air's classical music critic reviews an 80-disc set of recordings by Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. The collection, issued 25 years after Gould's death replicates the look of the original LPs.
Nov 29th, 2007 · Scientists discover resveratrol, a substance in red wine that lets obese mice live as long as regular mice. Researchers say they've come up with a drug that does much the same thing, but is more powerful.
Aug 14th, 2007 · Fats Domino was presented with reproductions of his gold record collection swept away along with his New Orleans home in the lower 9th Ward by Hurricane Katrina. Historians spent months tracking down original 78's of hits, dipping them in gold and replicating even the labels.
Jun 26th, 2007 · Matthew Sharpe's Jamestown is "a brilliant, bloody and blisteringly comic chronicle of the near future," recommended by Glen Weldon. After civilization's collapse, refugees journey to Virginia, where characters find themselves unwittingly replicating the historical founding of Jamestown.
Jun 23rd, 2007 · Near the town of Alliance, Neb., stands an installation called Carhenge. The artwork replicates Stonehenge in England, but in the form of 38 vintage American cars, half buried in the ground. Carhenge draws about 30,000 tourists a month during the summer, and it turns 20 this weekend.
Jun 2nd, 2007 · This week's bizarre news of a transatlantic traveler with tuberculosis raised questions about the microbe that causes the disease. In our regular segment "Science Out of the Box," Dr. Richard Chaisson of Johns Hopkins University explains that the TB bacterium is very slow to replicate, and this slows diagnosis, treatment and research.