Science

Airs Wednesday, May 2 at 6:00 p.m.  Once again Beverly J Burden, Associate Professor of Biology at LSUS and our resident Entomologist will join Bill Beckett us to discuss the insect world, both friendly and fiendish. We'll talk about what's new on the insect horizon and take your calls and questions about "What's Bugging You?"  Call in with your questions at 800-552-8502.

The Environment and Health Council of Louisiana hosts a conference April 18 to highlight research under way on the health of the Gulf two years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. The daylong conference is at Nicholls State's Bollinger Memorial Student Union in Thibodaux, La.

A team of Texas biologists has found that some fish in Caddo Lake show signs of liver damage that may be linked to mercury pollution.