Stories by Katherine Harmon

High Seas: What Happens When the Glaciers Melt?

So You Want to Live Forever?

Clean Dirty Water with the Sun

Newly Discovered Bacteria Lives on Caffeine

Researchers Enlisted to Help Students with Science Fair Projects

Jumping Heartbeat: Exercise Your Pulse

Find Magnetic North with a Homemade Compass

Get the Iron out--of Your Breakfast Cereal

Big Space: The Scale of the Solar System

New Fossil Severs Snakes from Legless Lizard Line

Washed Away: Rivers and Streams in an Instant

Disease-Causing Compound Found in Air Clogged with Smoke from Cigarettes, Fires or Air Pollution

Make Moon Cycles--with an Orange!

Make Craters with Mini-Meteors

Twitter Helped Doctors Tell Patients Where to Get Meds After Japan Earthquake

Altered Virus Calls Out Hidden Cancer Cells--and Might Help Fight Them, Too

Sink or Swim: Muscle versus Fat

Yeast Alive! Watch Yeast Live and Breathe

Human Brains Are Optimally Tuned for the Visual Hunt

Talk through a String Telephone

How Obesity Spreads in Social Networks

Under Pressure: Launch a Balloon Rocket

Buzzing: 13-Year Periodic Cicadas Emerge

Bend Water with Static Electricity