
Backyard Science: A New Cure for Bruises?
Kate Schrock has been an editor of Scientific American MIND since 2007, where she edits feature articles and runs Head Lines, the magazine's news department. After studying astronomy and physics at the University of Southern California, she worked in the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of California, Los Angeles, studying the brain structure of people with schizophrenia. She then enrolled in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program at New York University, where she earned a master's degree in journalism.

Backyard Science: A New Cure for Bruises?

Fact or Fiction?: An Opera Singer's Piercing Voice Can Shatter Glass
Can the high C of a trained soprano quiver glass into dissolution?

The Scent of Science
The nose knows: a "sniff test" may detect Alzheimer's disease early.

The Medication Munchies Mystery

Freeing a Locked-In Mind
Vegetative patients may soon be able to communicate with the outside world

SLIDESHOW: The Quest for Alien Life Begins in Our Own Back Yard
Just about every planet in the solar system that might harbor life has an analog on Earth--and that's the first place scientists thought to look

Transgenic Goat's Milk Kicks Up Immunity

Immune Cells Found to Protect Against Snakebites

Planet-forming Disks Slow Down Spinning Stars

Rogue Captains Built First Global Market

Climate Change May Not Benefit Crops

Study Bolsters Link between Pesticides and Parkinson's

Robotics Sensor Images the Sense of Touch

Astronomers Get First Good Look at Near-Earth Asteroid