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Many urban Kansans arrange their vacations around the wheat harvest so that they can help on a family's or friend's farm. A handful of University of Kansas faculty and staff members with roots entrenched in farming return to homesteads each summer to help in the fields.
Pluto will remain a planet, and some folks in Kansas are relieved. The discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, has some Kansas connections, including a stay at the University of Kansas, where an observatory is named after him.
The discovery of two complete fossils of saber-toothed cats in central Florida will force paleontologists to rewrite the textbooks on the extinct animal, says a noted researcher at the University of Kansas.
Parents who want to send their sons or daughters to a university can give their children, years ahead of time, a gift that's likely to help them succeed, says Rick Snyder, director of the University of Kansas clinical psychology program. Parents can give their children "hope."
Fieldwork by a University of Kansas ornithologist continues to reveal the extent of biological diversity of the New World tropics -- even as deforestation poses a mounting threat to the survival of many species -- with the discovery of a new species of pygmy-owl.
Sexuality is a common undercurrent that shapes a host of social phenomena such as white flight to the suburbs and ethnic and nationalist conflicts around the world, says a University of Kansas professor of sociology who is writing a book on "forbidden frontiers."
A type of fuel additive made from soybeans could help reduce energy costs and dependence on imported crude oil, report University of Kansas chemical engineering researchers.
A senior curator at the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas says Longisquama insignis, not dinosaurs, was among birds' first ancestors; a KU paleontologist insists Longisquama will not change his belief that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
The University Press of Kansas, noted for its books on America's presidents, offers several administrative histories on the three of the four presidents who won the Electoral College but not the popular vote. Two such presidents were also sons of previous presidents.
Scientists are examining ways to encourage farmers to store carbon in their soil as a means of offsetting the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
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