Stories by Rose Eveleth

Exercising Caution: Intensive Athletic Activity Could Be Fatal to Those with Sickle-Cell Trait

Scientists are studying why some athletes with a sickle-cell mutation face a greater risk of sudden death

TED Education Wants Your Help Bringing Cool Science to the Classroom

At TED Education, we're obsessed with learning. Whether it's about the history of the cell theory, or how to write a slam poem. And since I happen to be obsessed with science, I have a particularly fond place in my heart for our science lessons...

Cloud-Borne Bacteria May Affect Human Health and the Environment

Beyond affecting health, atmospheric microbes might also have an important effect on cloud formations and climate

The Physics of the Olympic High Jump

Information bits from the news

Will Swimsuit Controversy Rise Again? [Timeline]

Arguments over whether high-tech attire gives swimmers an unfair advantage have been waged for 80 years

Gooooal! 2 Technologies Compete to Sense Soccer Goals

A major botched call by referees during the World Cup has opened the door for computerized replacements

Should Oscar Pistorius's Prosthetic Legs Disqualify Him from the Olympics?

Scientists debate whether prosthetic legs give Pistorius an unfair advantage in the 400-meter race

Patent Watch: Ultrasound Guide Probe Device

We're in Iceland - thanks for traveling with us!

Whoa, we are in Iceland. Our thirty days at sea are over. This is the sappy wrap up post, so I'll try to keep the poetic waxing to a minimum.In the last 30 days, the scientists aboard the R/V Knorr have woken up early, gone to bed late, collected data, fought about which condiments were superior, eaten (a lot), sampled, sequenced, read, broke, fixed and finagled...

Simple Wristbands May Track Seizure Risk

An M.I.T. Media Lab professor talks about new wristbands that measure seizures

You wanted to know: who are these scientists?

For the past few days we've covered some of the scientists on board through their PI's: Kay Bidle, Jack DiTullio and Rachel, Petey and Jacob, Marco Coolen and Cherel, Anna Martins, Assaf and his gang...

You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Ben Van Mooy (sort of)

So far we've met five of the six principal investigators of the cruise: Kay Bidle, Jack DiTullio, Marco Coolen, Anna Martins and Assaf Vardi. The only one left is Ben Van Mooy.Broadly, Ben's lab works on marine chemistry...

You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Assaf Vardi

Walking around the main lab here, you'll hear two main languages: English and Hebrew. You've met the PI's speaking English: Ana Martins, Jack DiTullio, Kay Bidle, and Marco Coolen.

Water, water everywhere: a flow chart guide to the science on board

There's a lot going on here on the R/V Knorr. So much that I can't always keep track of it all. So I made a little flow chart for myself, and thought it might be helpful for you too.

You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Ana Martins

Yesterday I mentioned that two of the coolest things about this cruise are time and scale. We covered time yesterday, looking at Marco Coolen's work on paleo-genetics and the history of Ehux's battle with the virus...

You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Marco Coolen

There are two really cool things about this research cruise: time and scale. The researchers are going from satellite images taken from far above the Earth, all the way down to the lipids and proteins found within individual Ehux cells, bridging a huge range of scales...

You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Jack DiTullio

A while back I wrote about how the CTD was the most important instrument on board. Well, it turns out, I was wrong. Here's the most important instrument: Ena, the coffee maker.

You wanted to know: who are these scientists? Introducing: Kay Bidle

One of the things a lot of people want to know is just who these scientists are in the first place. So in the next few days I'm going to introduce you to some of them.

A graphical representation of the cruise so far

One of the scientists on board, Chris Brown, visualized the relationship between Ehux and ship morale. The top there is real data, so you can see just how big the spike was in Ehux concentration in our new spot.In the spirit of Chris's graph, here are some other little graphs I've made in the past few weeks about our time here...

How to stay sane on a ship in the middle of the ocean

The Knorr is a big ship as far as research vessels go - but there's still no getting around the fact that you're in a little metal box in the middle of the ocean with 49 other people for a month...