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A
Gasping Heart
Cardiac quirk may worsen sleep apnea, invite altitude
sickness
(April 7, 2007)
Fixes
for Fatty Liver
Diabetes drugs attack
another
disease of
obesity
(March 3, 2007)
Perchance
to Hibernate
Can we tap a dormant capacity to downshift our
metabolism?
(January 27, 2007)
Weighing In
on City
Planning
Could smart urban design keep people fit and
trim?
(January 20, 2007)
Calling
Death's Bluff
Implantable defibrillators can save thousands of lives—but which
ones?
(September 23, 2006)
Risky
Legacy
African DNA linked to prostate cancer
(August 26,
2006)
The
Screen Team
Less unpleasant colon exams might catch more cancers
(August 19, 2006)
Holy Smoke
Burning incense, candles pollute air in
churches
(August 19, 2006)
How to
Wash up in the Wilderness
(August 19, 2006)
Named
Medical Trials Garner Extra Attention
(August 5, 2006)
Demand for Ethanol May Drive Up Food Prices
(July 22,
2006)
Did
small hominids have a genetic defect?
(July
15, 2006)
The
Long Burn
Warming drove recent upswing in wildfires
(July 8,
2006)
Ultrasound's
New Focus
Can it eradicate tumors?
(April 29, 2006)
XXL from Too Few Zs?
Skimping on sleep might cause obesity,
diabetes
(April 1, 2006)
Light
All Night
New images quantify a nocturnal
pollutant
(March 18, 2006)
Flora
Horror
Hospitals struggle with a
serious new gut microbe
(February 18, 2006)
Diabetes
from a Plastic?
Estrogen mimic provokes insulin
resistance
(January
21, 2006)
Bright Lights, Big Cancer
Melatonin-depleted blood spurs
tumor growth
(January 7, 2006)
3-D
Vision
New technique could improve breast cancer screening,
diagnosis
(December 10, 2005)
Beyond
Falsetto
Do mice sing at ultrasonic frequencies?
(November
5, 2005)
Falling
Influence
Influenza fighters have limited effects
(October
1, 2005)
Potent
Medicine
Can Viagra and other lifestyle drugs save
lives?
(August 20, 2005)
Can
Chocolate Fight Diabetes, Too?
(August 13, 2005)
Pushing
Drugs
How medical marketing influences doctors and patients
(July 30, 2005)
Bacteria
Ride the Tide
Moon's phases predict water quality at
beaches
(July 2, 2005)
Gender Measure
Pollutant appears to alter boys' genitals
(June 4, 2005, with Janet Raloff)
The Race To Prescribe
Drug for African Americans may debut amid debate
(April 16, 2005)
Rice
with a Human Touch
Engineered grain uses gene from people
to
protect against herbicides
(April 16, 2005)
Shrinking at Sea
Harvesting drives evolution
toward smaller fishes
(February 26, 2005)
Against the Migraine
A procedure's
serendipitous success hints that
some headaches start in the
heart
(February 19, 2005)
Dangerous Practices
Critics see flaws in
drug-safety monitoring
(February 5, 2005)
Asthma
Counterattack
Symptoms decline when families fight allergens at
home
(November 27, 2004)
Creepy-Crawly
Care
Maggots move into mainstream medicine
(October 23,
2004)
Before the Booze
Cactus extract dulls
hangovers
(July 3, 2004)
Don't Let the Bugs Bite
Can genetic
engineering defeat diseases spread by insects?
(August 14, 2004)
Surgery
removes grenade from soldier's head
(February 7, 2004)
Brawny Brains
Creatine pills may aid memory
and
cognition
(August 16, 2003)
Skipping
Meals
Might Offer Health Gains
(June 7, 2003)
Unproven
Elixir
Hormone therapy tempts aging men,
but its risks haven't
yet
been reckoned
(May 10, 2003)
Out of China
SARS virus' genome hints at independent evolution
(April 26, 2003)
Deprived of
Darkness
The unnatural ecology of artificial light at
night
(April 20, 2002)
Steely Glaze
Layered electrolytes control corrosion
(April 13,
2002)
Germs That Do a Body Good
Bacteria might someday keep the doctor
away
(February 2, 2002)
Drink and Thrive
Moderate alcohol use reduces
dementia risk
(February 2, 2002)
New Fossils
Resolve Whale's Origin
(September 22, 2001)
National Geographic News
Bats
Have an Aerodynamic Edge Over Birds, Study Says
(May 10,
2007)
Liquid
Mercury
Tiny Planet Has Molten Core
(May 3, 2007)
Parasite "Brainwashes" Rats Into Craving Cat Urine, Study
Finds
(April 3, 2007)
Humans
Wear Diverse
"Wardrobe" of Skin Microbes, Study Finds
(February
6,
2007)
Egyptian
Writing "Scanned" Using High-Tech Methods
(September 8,
2006)
Bat Rabies Threat Rises With Summer Temperatures
(August 15,
2006)
NASA Hatches Plan to Save Shuttles from Vultures
(July
14, 2006)
Warming Climate Fueling Wildfires, Study Says
(July 6,
2006)
Illinois
Eighth Grader Wins National Geographic Bee
(May 24,
2006)
Rise
of the Machines
Surveillance software gets
smart
(February 22,
2006)
Self-healing
Spacecraft?
Tiny tubes ooze epoxy
(January 27,
2006)
Seafloor
Study Traces Culprits Behind Indian Ocean Tsunami
(December 23,
2005, with Anna Petherick)
Hubble Reveals New Moons, Rings Around Uranus
(December 22,
2005)
Flexible
Electronics One Step Closer With New Circuits
(December 15, 2005)
Giant
Asian Ape and Humans Coexisted, Might Have
Interacted
(December 8,
2005)
Toxic
"E-Waste" Gets Cached in Poor Nations, Report Says
(November 8,
2005)
Bird Flu's Spread to Africa Could Be Imminent, UN Warns
(October 27,
2005)
Spray-On Skin Cells Could Help Burns Heal
(September 12,
2005, with Anna Petherick)
New Nanotech Coating Prevents Fogging, Glare in Glass
(August 29, 2005)
Nano-Switches
Could Yield Even Smaller Gadgets
(August 16, 2005)
Nepalese
Porters May Be World's Most Efficient Haulers
(June 16, 2005)
Powerful Pollinators, Wild Bees May Favor Eco-Farms
(updated October 28, 2004)
In the Midst
of Monarchs
Mexico's butterfly oasis
(June 10, 2003)
New Theory Drastically Rethinks Evolution of Early Life
(Jan. 30, 2003)
Tying
Shoes
Math may make case for how we lace
(December 4, 2002)
Ancient
Olympians
Weighted down to win
(November 14, 2002)
Raw Human Waste Killing Off Coral Reefs?
(June 27, 2002)
Scientific Pitfalls Complicate Cloning Debate
(May 31, 2002)
Universe Reborn Endlessly in New Model of the Cosmos
(April 25, 2002)
State Bird of Hawaii
Unmasked as Canadian
(February 6, 2002)
Was Moon Born From Planet's Crash Into Earth?
(August 20, 2001)
Popular Mechanics
Fighting
HIV by Building a New Killer
In the fight to find a cure for AIDS, researchers have invented a
viral double agent on a mission to seek out where HIV hides
(December 1, 2006, for PopularMechanics.com)
Immunization 2.0
Diseases like West Nile Virus show
no
respect for borders.
But a new class of vaccines may soon
keep them in check
(September 2006)
Discover
Raw Data
Are
Antidepressant Drugs Actually Worth Taking?
(October 10,
2008)
Popular Science
Can Sen. Science Fix Our Tech
Woes?
Q&A with Sen. George Allen
(R-Va.)
(February 2003)
ScienceNOW
Yellowstone's
Geologic Recycling
Program
(July 24, 2001)
Flood
Experiment Built Beaches
(July 17,
2001)
Stress
Hormone Addles Memory
(July 9,
2001)
Great
Barrier Reef Surprisingly Young
(June
1, 2001)
Slate
Flowercasting
How do horticulturists know when the cherry blossoms will bloom?
(March
27, 2007)
U.S. News & World Report
Thinking
Harder (blog)
A science journalist's open
notebook
(October 2007 to July 2009; currently on hiatus)
How
to Find the Best Hospital Near You
For the first time, U.S. News has ranked hospitals in America's 52 largest
metropolitan areas
(March 29, 2011)
Should
You Join a Research Study? 9 Tips for Volunteers in Clinical
Trials
By enrolling in a research study, patients can advance clinical care. But
they need to consider safety
(September 23, 2009)
6
Scientists on the Cutting Edge of Energy and Environmental Research
Don Hammerstrom: Making Appliances Smarter
Daniel Nocera: Storing Solar
Energy
(March 27, 2009)
13 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Daylight Saving Time
When
clocks spring forward, people lose sleep, have more heart attacks, and
might not even save energy
(March 3, 2009)
Turning
Out the Lights
The dangers of a bright night are
becoming more apparent
(March 14, 2008)
The Monolith Called Uluru
Ayers Rock, Australia
(November 16, 2007)
Defibrillators'
Weak Link
What to do if there's a failure-prone lead in your
chest
(October 18, 2007)
Time
for a Debate on Folate?
Too much of a good thing could turn out to
be bad
(August 5, 2007)
A
Gap with Credibility
(America's Best Colleges, 2006)
Mending Migraines
Can plugging a
hole in the heart end headache agony?
(April 11, 2005)
If You Reapply, You
Might Just Get In
(America's Best Colleges, 2002)
Need a Job? You Can Run the Show
(America's Best Colleges, 2002)
Watch What You Borrow
(America's Best Colleges, 2002)
Murder Mystery on Ice
A prehistoric death had unnatural causes
(August 6, 2001)
Fortified
Eggs Offer New Reasons to Shell Out
(April 2, 2001)
Hand-Held Travel
Guides Put the World in Your Palm
(February 26, 2001)
Dating an Older
Man
Early humanoid fossil
(December 18, 2000)
Cooling a Hot Virus
A vaccine for Ebola?
(December 11, 2000)
Los Angeles
Times
Spanking:
When parents lift their hands
It's better not to use corporal
punishment, researchers agree. But, in fact, people do. Now we're
learning the consequences.
(February 19, 2007; also
appeared in the Chicago
Tribune)
Ready,
set ... eat!
Enough with the tried-and-true waist-saving tips. Try
fasting, dehydration and conflict.
(November 20, 2006,
with Rosie Mestel)
Road to fat city starts at home
Can a neighborhood make you gain weight? Urban planners think so, but a
study questions the link between ZIP Code and waistline.
(November 6, 2006)
Friends
Here's
To Good Buddies, Good Health
(October 16, 2006)
USA Today
New
Orleans Caught in a Stranglehold of Vegetation
Lower Ninth
Ward: Reclaimed by nature
(November 1, 2007)
Some
Try Ultra-Fat Diet to Combat Medical Conditions
For
patients with Parkinson's disease and other nerve disorders,
extreme menu could hold answers
(May 15, 2006)
Sleep Treatments Rise to the Occasion
Behavioral therapy,
pills, even both
(February 27,
2006)
Hibernation
Could Help Humans, Too
Process may keep organs preserved
(January 25, 2006)
The Washington Post
Advice
varies on what to do when an expectant mother's water breaks before
labor
(October
31, 2011)
How and Why
The bacteria (or virus or parasite) made me do it
(June 13, 2011)
How and Why
Reinventing the (fly)wheel
(April 18, 2011)
How and Why
Start-ups
are devising kites to turn wind power into a cheap source of
power
(March 21,
2011)
How and Why
Is severe winter weather related to global warming?
(February 7, 2011)
How and Why
New theory seeks to explain Saturn's unique and constantly changing rings
(January 11, 2011)
How and Why
Many
species use hibernation to survive the rigors of
winter
(December 6, 2010)
How and Why
Earth
contains a vast amount of water, but scientists are unsure of its origins
(November 8, 2010)
How and Why
Many
organisms rely on bioluminescence to breed, feed and evade predators
(October 12,
2010)
How and Why
Dust blows in from the ends of the Earth, even beyond
(September 14,
2010)
How and Why
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old
scene
(July 6, 2010)
How and Why
Want to see better? We'd have to turn out the lights
(June 8, 2010)
How and Why
A
bounteous source of power may lie right beneath
our feet
(April 27, 2010)
Getting
the Bugs Out
Area hospitals far apart in applying
infection-control measures
(September 25, 2007)
Getting
to the Heart of ED
Sexual problems in men are often tied to
vascular disease
(March 13, 2007)
Take This, You'll Like It
Study says TV ads promote drug sales through emotion, not
information
(January 30, 2007)
Practicing Moral Hygiene
Study links guilt and the urge for clean
hands.
(Now, pass the towelettes,
please.)
(October 10, 2006)
Claim Check
Pandemic Flu Kits
(August 22, 2006)
Hormones as Dope
How
testosterone pumps up performance
(August 8, 2006)
Summer Better
Itching
to Know
(August 1,
2006)
Race Matters
Bias's
Toll
(July 11, 2006)
Doctor's Visit
Measuring
Care
(May 9, 2006)
Down the Hatch, Then What?
Set aside the question of why
competitive eaters do what they do. Some want to know
how
(November
29,
2005; reprinted in
The
Toronto Star, December 2)
Drug Watch
Block That
Statin
(October 18, 2005)
Shelf Help
New! From General
Pills!
(September 6, 2005)
Sexual Health
Race Relations
(August 23, 2005)
Junk-Food
Science
Candy makers are pitching chocolate as a health
food.
But so far, the
research is turning up sweet nothing
(August 9, 2005)
Need To Know
Why
Cheney Feels the Burn
(July 26, 2005)
Heart Device Recall
For patients with suspect models, tough choices
(June 28, 2005)
Claim Check
Wonder
Juice?
(June 21, 2005)
Prostate Cancer
New
Wave Therapy
(April 19, 2005)
Good Sports
Knocking
Heads
(March 29, 2005)
