Articles By: Katherine Harmon

News 1/31/10
Rotting Fish Spoil Ideas about Early Life-Forms' Simplicity
Squashed fossils of the first boneless vertebrates suggest basal creatures, but real-time decay patterns hint they might have been less primitive than we thought
News 1/27/10
Colorizing Dinosaurs: Feather Pigments Reveal Appearance of Extinct Animals
Long the range of the imagination, the coloration--and origin--of feathered dinosaurs and ancient birds has begun to be revealed through fossilized organelles
News 1/25/10
Homing In on Mammalian Echolocation
From 3-D scanning to genetic sequencing, researchers are using new tools to uncover information about this ability possessed by flying and swimming mammals alike
News 1/21/10
Sequencing Staph: New Genetic Analysis Tracks MRSA Mutations
As drug-resistant strains of staph sicken people around the globe, high-power genome sequencing promises to trace the spread of this infection
Ask the Experts 1/15/10
Are Infectious Diseases Now Really Haiti's Biggest Health Threat?
Despite much concern about diseases spreading through Haiti's earthquake-shattered areas, one epidemiologist explains that mental health issues will be more widespread
News 1/13/10
Haiti Earthquake Disaster Little Surprise to Some Seismologists
Although seismic predictions work on geologic timescales and can miss big quakes by decades, one expert said last week that a temblor in Port-au-Prince was of greater concern than a San Andreas slip

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