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August 14, 2009Health
Gene Therapy Treatment for Blindness Proves Safe--and Effective--One Year in: Three subjects with a rare form of visual impairment found their sight still better a year after gene therapy, and their immune systems seemed happy with the treatment, too; Katherine Harmon

April 15, 2010Mind & Brain
Motivated Multitasking: How the Brain Keeps Tabs on Two Tasks at Once: New research shows that rather than being totally devoted to one goal at a time, the human brain can distribute two goals to different hemispheres to keep them both in mind--if it perceives a worthy reward for doing so...; Katherine Harmon

February 17, 2010Biology
Science, Stimulated: 7 Stimulus-Funded Research Projects [Slide Show]: From building robotic bees to studying real mosquitoes, these researchers were able to pursue their scientific dreams thanks to being banked by 2009 economic recovery act funding; Katherine Harmon

April 23, 2009Environment
Wildfires Fuel Climate Change: A warmer climate mean more fires, and more fires mean more greenhouse gases, says new report; Katherine Harmon

July 8, 2009Environment
Endangered Species Get Iced in Museum DNA Repository: Genetic information from species on National Park Service land that are threatened with extinction will now be frozen and stored for future research at the American Museum of Natural History...; Katherine Harmon

May 18, 2009The Sciences
Growth Industry: Honeybee Numbers Expand Worldwide as U.S. Decline Continues: Despite serious losses to colonies in the U.S. and Europe, honeybees are on the rise in other parts of the world--although hardly keeping pace with growing demand; Katherine Harmon

August 19, 2009Mind & Brain
The Origin of Hatred: Brain scans reveal how hate begins to emerge--and it's not too far from love; Katherine Harmon

June 4, 2009Health
Is there such a thing as "cell phone elbow"?: Do cell phone chatterers have more to fear than bulky monthly bills? An orthopedic surgeon explains what cubital tunnel syndrome--aka "cell phone elbow"--is, and whether it's worth worrying about...; Katherine Harmon

January 16, 2009Environment
Sustainable fishing at your fingertips: The best fish to buy? Ask your cell phone: New mobile services provide instant access to the healthiest, greenest catch; Katherine Harmon

January 30, 2009The Sciences
When Grasshoppers Go Biblical: Serotonin Causes Locusts to Swarm: A common brain chemical could be behind the process that morphs timid grasshoppers into voracious locusts; Katherine Harmon

June 23, 2009Mind & Brain
Low Brainer: Ancient Skull Shows Early Primates Didn't Need Big Brains: A 54-million-year-old fossil suggests that certain early primate activities did not necessarily trigger the explosion in brain size; Katherine Harmon

July 8, 2009The Sciences
Audit Smokes Out Lax Fire Protection at U.S. Nuclear Weapons Lab: Fewer than half of the fire prevention shortcomings examined at the Los Alamos National Laboratory had been fixed after previous evaluation, an Energy Department audit reports; Katherine Harmon

July 15, 2009Mind & Brain
The Brain Adapts in a Blink to Compensate for Missing Information: When part of a person's vision is disrupted, they start seeing the world differently within seconds. Researchers believe this may be proof that the brain reroutes crucial information rather than builds new pathways...; Katherine Harmon

September 11, 2009Health
NO Good: Nitric Oxide May Be Key to Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance: Recent discoveries have shown how some bacteria use a form of nitric oxide to launch more effective attacks on their hosts. Can the new knowledge be translated into better drugs to beat antibiotic-resistant MRSA or anthrax?...; Katherine Harmon

October 16, 2009Mind & Brain
Rare Procedure Pinpoints the Location, Speed and Sequence of the Brain's Language Processes: Implanted electrodes in brains of presurgery patients show in real-time how Broca's area organizes language from perception to sound in milliseconds; Katherine Harmon

December 10, 2009Biology
Newly Discovered T. Rex Relative Fleshes Out Early Dino Evolution: The recently unearthed theropod, Tawa hallae, solidifies the link between primitive carnivores and those that evolved into modern birds; Katherine Harmon

December 1, 2013Health
Genetic Cures for the Gut: Katherine Harmon Courage; Scientific American Volume 309, Issue 6; 10.1038/scientificamerican1213-45; Originally published as "Microbes in our gut could be manipulated to fight illnesses and infections" in Scientific American Volume 309, Issue 6

March 6, 2013Biology
Salt Linked to Autoimmune Diseases: Nanowires used to disarm single genes in cells without harming or altering them were used to reveal that sodium chloride might cause harmful T cell growth; Katherine Harmon and Nature magazine

May 4, 2015Technology
Humanoid Robo-Clerk Not Fooling Shoppers Just Yet: A lifelike, if stilted, robot makes her debut at a Japanese department store, while a smaller bot is ready to answer questions at a local bank; Katherine Harmon Courage

December 1, 2009Mind & Brain
Conditional Consciousness: Predicting Recovery from the Vegetative State: Tests reveal patients in vegetative states can form new memories; Katherine Harmon; December 2009; 10.1038/scientificamerican1209-27

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