Stories by Glenn Zorpette

Focusing in a Flash

Blue Chip

Shuji Nakamura beat the titans to blue LEDs and lasers, potentially revolutionizing lighting and data storage.

Blue Chip

Shuji Nakamura beat the titans to blue LEDs and lasers, potentially revolutionizing lighting and data storage

A Plum of an Island

Sensationalism dogs an animal laboratory upgrade

A Spaceship for One--Working Knowledge on Space Suits

All Doped Up--and Going for the Gold

Miscues by the International Olympic Committee frustrate scientists developing tests for the performance-enhancing drugs erythropoietin and human growth hormone.

Why Go to Mars?

In the first of this group of articles about human missions to Mars, staff writer Glenn Zorpette examines the main goal: looking for life

The Nobel Prizes for 1999

Explanations of the science underlying the world's most prestigious awards for physics, chemistry and physiology plus a look at the prizes for peace, won by a physicians organization, and economics...

A TASTE OF WEIGHTLESSNESS

Our reporter flies on NASA's zero-g-simulating "Vomit Comet"

A POUND OF FLESH

For a Danish study of human athletic performance, our reporter donates some muscle to the cause

Chasing the Ghost Bat

On jungle rivers in Belize, two zoologists catch the ultrasonic cries of bats--and fish for a big one

WAITING FOR THE SUPERCAR

Overly ambitious goals may have hurt the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles

A PROBING PRELUDE

Global Surveyor bolsters the theory that water persisited on Mars

To Save a Salmon

Andro Angst

Should the U.S. regulate over-the-counter sports supplements as anabolic steroids?

Patent Blunder

Terrorists' recipe for making the nerve agent VX in Sudan apparently came from a U.S. patent

Deadly Secrets

As India and Pakistan demonstrated, military nuclear know-how is spreading with frightening ease

Mesozoic Mystery Tour

The annual horseshoe crab procession, as seen from Brooklyn

Seeing the Light

CMOS image sensors are poised to take on CCDs

A New Fat Pipe

A powerful consortium pushes a new path to the Internet