Previous Work

Sept 2024 ⋮ The Last Hominin Standing

Nov 2021 ⋮ How the Coronavirus Stays One Step Ahead of Us

Jul 2021 ⋮ These archaeologists helped quell a COVID surge in Madagascar

Jul 2021 ⋮ How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous

Nov 2020 ⋮ How Iceland hammered COVID with science

Aug 2020 ⋮ How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond

Jul 2019 ⋮ Self-destructing mosquitoes and sterilized rodents: the promise of gene drives

Mar 2019 ⋮ Protein-slaying drugs could be the next blockbuster therapies

Oct 2018 ⋮ How three research groups are tearing down the ivory tower (with Cassandra Willyard and Linda Nordling)

Oct 2017 ⋮ To stay young, kill zombie cells

Jan 2017 ⋮ Big science has a buzzword problem

Jun 2016 ⋮ How iPS cells changed the world cover story

Dec 2015 ⋮ The science myths that will not die

Jan 2015 ⋮ Blood to blood

Nov, 2013 ⋮ Sex, cancer and a virus

Jun 2017 ⋮ The Human Brain Project Reboots: A Search Engine for the Brain Is in Sight

Aug 2011 ⋮ A ballsy search for cancer targets

Jan 2017 ⋮ Giving newborns medicine is a dangerous guessing game. Can we make it safer?

Jan 2016 ⋮ Probiotics come with bold health claims, but the science is shaky 

Jul 2015 ⋮ Children's Cancer Is Unprofitable and Ignored

Sep 2014 ⋮ The Pacific Starfish Die-Off Continues, but There Is New Hope

Jul 2014 ⋮ Scientists Question the Big Price Tags of Big Data

Jun 2014 ⋮ A Fruit Billionaire Tries to Rewrite the Textbook on Medicine

Feb 2016 ⋮ How your language shapes your brain and personality

Jun 2015 ⋮ Why learning in your sleep is an idea that's reawakening

Apr 2011 ⋮ Can biosecurity go global?

Nov 2010 ⋮ Kisaalita engineers solutions for Africa’s rural poor

Aug 2010 ⋮ Forensics in three dimensions

Aug 2017 ⋮ Grass Routes

Sep 2016 ⋮ The Genes Underlying Autism Are Coming Into Focus

Aug 2015 ⋮ Drugging the Environment

Apr 2015 ⋮ My Mighty Mouse cover story

Jul 2014 ⋮ The Sex Paradox

Jan 2014 ⋮ Genomes Gone Wild

Jul 2013 ⋮ Worried Sick

Sep 2012 ⋮ Missing Touch cover story

May 2011 ⋮ Power Failure cover story

Jul 2010 ⋮ Brain, Interrupted

Nov 2015 ⋮ 10 Brain Myths Busted

Feb 2017 ⋮ Cleaning up the hygiene hypothesis