Stories by Michaela Maya-Mrschtik

Michaela Maya-Mrschtik has a doctorate in molecular biology and is a medicine editor at Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a partner publication of Scientific American.

Tempeh is a traditional soy product originally from Indonesia.

HealthDecember 7, 2025

Death by Fermented Food

Some fermenting foods can carry the risk of a bacterium that produces an extremely strong toxin called bongkrekic acid

Michaela Maya-Mrschtik

A patient enters a magnetic resonance imaging scanner

MedicineAugust 6, 2025

MRI Accidents Explained: What Causes Deaths and Injuries in Scanners

When serious accidents happen in magnetic resonance imaging scanners, it’s usually because people ignore one very important rule

Michaela Maya-Mrschtik

NeuroscienceOctober 21, 2024

How Your Brain Processes Zero (It’s Not Exactly ‘Nothing’)

What we think about when we think about “zilch” is surprisingly complex, neuroscientists find

Michaela Maya-Mrschtik, Daisy Yuhas