Stories by Glenn Zorpette

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

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

Sensationalism dogs an animal laboratory upgrade

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Surveyor bolsters the theory that water persisited on Mars

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

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

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

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

The annual horseshoe crab procession, as seen from Brooklyn

CMOS image sensors are poised to take on CCDs

A powerful consortium pushes a new path to the Internet

The pathological preoccupation with muscle building

Headless frog embryos are here. So what? biologists say

The U.S. Navy's Experimental Diving Unit is a diver's heaven--and hell

On the verge of realizing the quest for a blue laser