Using Science to Rescue a Wilting Mint Industry Although Washington is the largest peppermint producer in the United States, this status is being challenged. So too is the U.S. share of the global mint oil market, which has slipped from a position of dominance to under 50 percent from the flood of synthetic and different-quality […]
Once I had a case of influenza so bad I missed close to a month of graduate school. I ran a fever and coughed until it felt like my whole world was turned upside down. Because I’m a geologist, not a medical doctor, I nicknamed that bout of illness “the plague.” But what I experienced […]