Stories by Marguerite Holloway

To accommodate a fast-growing New York City, John Randel, Jr., began to lay out the city’s streets in 1808—an impressive endeavor that holds lessons for today’s information infrastructure

The Italian researcher faced prejudice and adversity as a woman and as a Jew, but went on to elucidate a growth factor essential to the survival of nerve cells

Sasquatch is just a legend, right? According to the evidence, maybe not, argues Jeffrey Meldrum--a position he holds despite ostracism from his fellow anthropologists and university colleagues

Lene Vestergaard Hau made headlines by slowing light to below highway speed. Now the ringmaster of light can stop it, extinguish it and revive it—and thereby give quantum information a new look

Thomas E. Starzl pioneered organ transplantation with antirejection drugs--an approach he hopes to end through a phenomenon called microchimerism

Ingredients for environmental awakening

Lisa Randall's thinking on higher dimensions, warped space and membranes catalyzed ideas in cosmology and physics. It might even unify all four forces of nature

Questioning the term after a bird's return

Writing and humanities studies produce better physicians, Rita Charon argues, because doctors learn to coax hidden information from patients' complaints

The longest cave in the world wends below Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park. Here visitors can view cave formation up close

With atoms near absolute zero, Deborah S. Jin created a Fermi condensate--opening a new realm in physics that might lead to room-temperature superconductivity

The largest astronomical observatory in the world sits on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The views, up or down, are spectacular

Volunteers join archaeological and historical Forest Service projects around the country, learning field techniques

Microbes seem to talk, listen and collaborate with one another--fodder for the truly paranoid. Bonnie L. Bassler has been eavesdropping and translating

Half a million sandhill cranes stop along a stretch of Nebraska¿s Platte River every spring

Glass under glass: Harvard University's unusual botanical collection

Score one for believers in the adage "Use it or lose it." Targeted mental and physical exercises seem to improve the brain in unexpected ways

Walking beneath the waves at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Seeing science past and present in two Parisian museums

A rim with a view in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Visiting lemurs and their next of kin at the Duke Primate Center

The unknown effects of the towers' collapse

In the Painted Desert of Arizona, a story of how forests turned to stone and how the stones are walking away

Full moon in May brings horseshoe crabs ashore to mate and migrating birds in to feast