Ask a Scientist appears Sundays in the Press & Sun Bulletin, the local regional newspaper. Questions are answered by faculty at Binghamton University. Area school children ask the questions through their teachers. Below are questions answered by members of the Department of Biological Sciences:

Questions 2008:

February 3
How can you tell the difference between a cancer cell and a regular cell?

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Previous Questions 2007:

December
When did the classification system start?

December 12
What causes red algae in the Gulf of Mexico?

October 10
Why is seaweed so important to fish and sea creatures?

February 28
Why are some Geese still in Binghamton this time of year?

January 25
How do you pick up a stingray?

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Previous Questions 2006:

December 1
Are we losing our wetlands and how fast are we losing them?

November 22
How are seashells made?

November 15
Why don't offspring have all their parents' inherited traits?

November 01
Why is tree bark brown?

June 07
How come some snakes could kill people?

May 25
Why do cats purr?

April 07
Why do people get fat by not eating too much but by eating junk all day?

February 23
Why do male sea horses have babies?

February 18
To date, has evolution been proven to be fact or theory?

January 11
Why don't wolves bark?

January 04
If you had identical twin guys and identical twin girls and they had kids, would their kids look the same?

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Previous Questions 2005:

December 14
Why can't fish breathe out of water?

November 2
Why do amphibians need to be moist? 

Apr 22, 2005
I would like to know how they found DNA and who came up with it?

Mar 29, 2005
Is there a way that the weird fish at the deepest parts of the ocean will ever be discovered?

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