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July 12, 2011Biology
Killing Average: Can Researchers Find the Most Effective Treatment for Everyone?: Medicine--and its outcomes and costs--are often based on averages. But a number of scientists and doctors are devising ways to make the calculus of "effectiveness" more personal; Katherine Harmon

February 16, 2012Health
Microchip Implant Gives Medication On Command: A tiny chip implanted under the skin can dole out dozens of doses of osteoporosis medication right on schedule; Katherine Harmon

March 15, 2012Evolution
Worm Discovery Illuminates How Our Brains Might Have Evolved: Genetic traces similar to those in vertebrate brains have been found in lowly worms, but not all scientists are convinced that complex brains were already in the works more than 500 million years ago...; Katherine Harmon

April 5, 2012Biology
Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads, Scientists Hunt Down Genetic Causes: The parasite that causes malaria is becoming immune to artemisinin, the most effective drug. Pinpointing the resistance genes could offer a way to beat back the disease; Katherine Harmon

March 17, 2011Biology
How Much Spent Nuclear Fuel Does the Fukushima Daiichi Facility Hold?: As Japan attempts to cool overheating nuclear fuel with seawater, experts worry that the damaged spent-fuel pools pose the greatest threat; Katherine Harmon

May 5, 2011Space & Physics
Under Pressure: Launch a Balloon Rocket: Bring Science Home: Activity 4; Katherine Harmon

May 19, 2011Space & Physics
Big Space: The Scale of the Solar System: Bring Science Home: Activity 14; Katherine Harmon

May 27, 2011Chemistry
Recycle! Make Old Paper New: Bring Science Home: Activity 20; Katherine Harmon

January 7, 2012Fitness
How Has Stephen Hawking Lived Past 70 with ALS?: An expert on Lou Gehrig's disease explains what we know about this debilitating condition and how Hawking has beaten the odds; Katherine Harmon

July 23, 2010Public Health
How Does a Heat Wave Affect the Human Body?: Some might like it hot, but extreme heat can overpower the human body. An expert from the CDC explains how heat kills and why fans are worthless in the face of truly high temperatures; Katherine Harmon

April 3, 2020Public Health
Coronavirus Disrupts Vital Field Research—Including Disease Transmission Work: Scientists across the globe have been cut off from sites and experimental resources—or stranded abroad; Katherine Harmon Courage

May 16, 2011Space & Physics
Make Craters with Mini-Meteors: Bring Science Home: Activity 11; Katherine Harmon

May 8, 2009The Sciences
Treating Wrinkles with Cutting-Edge Technology--Without Going Under the Knife: From stem cells to the circadian cycle, the science behind new high-tech anti-aging research; Katherine Harmon

October 25, 2010Biology
Why Is Cholera Spreading in Haiti Now?: More than nine months after the country's devastating earthquake, a cholera epidemic has sickened thousands. Why does this infectious disease persist? David Sack, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, explains...; Katherine Harmon

September 7, 2012Biology
What Caused the Yosemite Hantavirus Outbreak?: With the Yosemite tourists having died from this normally high-altitude illness, we spoke with an infectious disease expert to see if hantavirus could spread to other areas of the country...; Katherine Harmon

June 17, 2010Mind & Brain
Lost? Evidence That Sense of Direction Is Innate: Two new studies show how spatial parts of the brain are already functioning in infancy, revealing that not everything we understand about our surroundings is learned; Katherine Harmon

July 30, 2010Biology
Genes from Ebola Virus Family Found in Human Genome: A rush of new research has found evidence that some RNA viruses made their way into vertebrate genomes millions of years ago; Katherine Harmon

August 11, 2010Health
Temperature Drops Put the Squeeze on Heart Attack Risk: A slight daily mean temperature decline can increase the number of heart attacks for up to a month, new research shows; Katherine Harmon

October 14, 2010Evolution
Randy Rotifers: Environmental Variation Prompts More Sex: Asexual reproduction is efficient and reliable in many small organisms, so why will some suddenly decide to mate? A rare lab experiment sheds light on the forces that drive the switch to sex...; Katherine Harmon

December 17, 2010Evolution
New Tool Tracks Culture through the Centuries via Google Books: The field of "culturomics" promises humanities researchers a robust quantitative tool to analyze cultural trends back to the 1500s; Katherine Harmon

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