Stories by Adam Hadhazy

Rising temperatures may lead to more cases of the potentially painful condition

The neurotransmitter behind addictive behavior may also unleash paranoia

Killer hot peppers; Straightening kids' spines; Netting mosquitoes; Retiring the shuttle; and more...

A Q&A with Hany Farid, doctored digital-photo sleuth, on allegedly faked missiles--and tornadoes

A new tool tracks diseases, contaminants and other threats as they occur worldwide

West Nile is back; Chameleons live the fast life; The world is becoming happier; and more. . .

What happened on June 30, 1908 in central Siberia? Was the atomic bomb–size airburst caused by antimatter? An extraterrestrial spacecraft? A wayward black hole?

President Bush declares a state of emergency as more than 1,000 blazes rage

Brain plaque without Alzheimer's symptoms; Teaching computers to teach better; Sweet plan to save the Everglades; From fins to limbs; and more...

A Q&A with an engineer who helped design the camera now imaging the surface of the Red Planet

Clone your dog; Stem cells help mend bones; Latrines cleaner than toilets; and more...

Annual contest held by Mars Society highlights robotic innovation and makes for some snazzy-looking rovers

NASA set to turn up the heat in Phoenix Mars Lander's soil-sniffing ovens

Pluto becomes just another plutoid; Predicting if coma patients will awaken; Brain protein stops alcoholism; and more...

More pictures from a traveling photo exhibit of creatures on the brink

Anthropologists say women prized since 5000 B.C.; new mega-Earth discovered; making fuel from car exhaust; and more

New instrument will look at gamma rays blasted out by the most powerful events in the universe

New wildlife campaign displaying poignant portraits of the planet's endangered creatures

Read about a paleontologist some call a real-life Indiana Jones and why the Mayan Empire fell

First dino footprints found in the region shed light on sauropod herding behavior

Researchers transfer DNA from the long-vanished Tasmanian tiger into a mouse

Widespread evidence links global warming to an array of environmental effects

How a once-wet landscape became one of the world's great deserts