Stories by J.H.

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

AIDS researchers seek to enroll more minorities in clinical trials

DNA fingerprinting may help discourage elephant poaching

A Russian-born technique may improve proton accelerators

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

Why a little heart disease can be worse than a lot

A dark horse emerges in the race toward fusion energy

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

Affluent women have cesareans more often than poor women do

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

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

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

NASA seeks ways to cope with an upcoming deluge of data

Pentagon strategists take heed of a dove's chaotic theories

Scientists build a "bee" whose dancing fools real bees

Two groups take stabs at a persistent cosmic puzzle

Quasars and radio galaxies may be two of a kind

A tomb in Ireland may be the oldest astronomical structure

Chess-playing computers are beating grand masters

Astronomers may have detected supernova 1987A's flashy core

Drug firms balk at pursuing a heroin-addiction treatment

War breaks out in the field of evolutionary biology.