Stories by J.H.

Affirmative Action

AIDS researchers seek to enroll more minorities in clinical trials

Nobel Prizes

Big-Game Forensics

DNA fingerprinting may help discourage elephant poaching

What's a Hoatzin?

It looks like a bird but eats and smells-like a cow

Stillborn

Is an unusual "protogalaxy" really just an ordinary dwarf?

Siberian Snake

A Russian-born technique may improve proton accelerators

Trans-Kingdom Sex

E. coli mate with yeast! (Will Jesse Helms cut off funds?)

Sudden Impact

Why a little heart disease can be worse than a lot

Heavy-Ion Fusion

A dark horse emerges in the race toward fusion energy

Status Symbol

Affluent women have cesareans more often than poor women do

Brown Dwarfs Here...

Brown dwarfs there ... maybe. But are they everywhere?

Beyond the Piano: Musicians Explore the Acoustics of Kelp and Clay and Ostrich Eggs

The Impact Giveth...

Did cosmic collisions help create life as well as destroying it?

Jukeboxes for Scientists

NASA seeks ways to cope with an upcoming deluge of data

Stradivari's Secret (Redux)

Did baroque artisans "X-ray" wood with sunlight?

Nonlinear Thinking

Pentagon strategists take heed of a dove's chaotic theories

Disco-Bee

Scientists build a "bee" whose dancing fools real bees

Gamma-Ray Bursts

Two groups take stabs at a persistent cosmic puzzle

It's a Pulsar!

Astronomers may have detected supernova 1987A's flashy core

Points of View

Quasars and radio galaxies may be two of a kind