Science
Mind Theorist
Scientific American • December 2012
Have you ever stopped to consider what a brilliant mind reader you are? If someone in your field of view experiences a sudden happy thought
Read more →Do Plants Think?
Mind Matters • June 2012
How aware are plants? This is the central question behind a fascinating new book, “What a Plant Knows,” by Daniel Chamovitz, director of
Read more →Inconvenient truth
Boston Globe • March 2012
PEOPLE HAVE offered many suggestions for dealing with climate change. There have been international political agreements, and attempts at market-based solutions. Some have suggested the
Read more →Reverse Engineering the Human Brain
Mind Matters • March 2012
What makes us who we are? Where is our personal history recorded, or our hopes? What explains autism or schiziphrenia or remarkable genius? Sebastian Seung
Read more →The Brain, Weaponized
Boston Globe • February 2012
ONE BY one, the disciplines of science have lost their innocence. For chemistry, the defining moment came during World War I, when the Germans unleashed
Read more →Why Scientists are Boycotting a Publisher
Boston Globe • February 2012
THE SCIENTIFIC community finds itself at the beginning of its own Arab Spring. At stake are values that all Americans hold dear: the free flow
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The Brittle Star's Apprentice
Scientific American • February 2012
AMONG THE FIRST things you notice when you step into the corner office of Harvard University professor Joanna Aizenberg are the playthings. Behind her desk
Read more →The Standing Cure
Boston Globe • January 2012
LAST WEEK came what passes for good news in the fight against fat. Over the last decade, the government reported, Americans have not become more
Read more →Good Bugs in our Body
Boston Globe • November 2011
MOST OF US look at bacteria as the enemy. They are the invisible things that lay in wait all around us - clinging to food,
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How Crowdsourcing is Changing Science
Boston Globe • November 2011
At the end of the 19th century, a team of British archeologists happened upon what is now one of the world’s most treasured trash dumps. The
Read more →Harvard alters its approach to scientific study
Boston Globe • January 2007
The Harvard University corporation will devote $50 million to begin an ambitious effort to encourage interdisciplinary science research, signaling the governing board's determination to make
Read more →Old Script Rewrites New World History
Boston Globe • September 2006
Scientists announced yesterday that they have discovered ancient writing, carved in stone, that dramatically pushes back the dawn of writing in the Americas. The Cascajal block,
Read more →MIT Star Accused by 11 Colleagues
Boston Globe • July 2006
By Marcella Bombardieri and Gareth Cook Eleven MIT professors have accused a powerful colleague, a Nobel laureate, of interfering with the university's efforts to hire a
Read more →Stem cells seen driving tumors
Boston Globe • December 2004
Stem cells have become famous for their ability to heal, spurring hopes that they might one day cure Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, and a
Read more →New technique eyed in stem-cell debate
Boston Globe • November 2004
With the nation deadlocked over the morality of using human embryos for research, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics is quietly promoting a
Read more →From adult stem cells comes debate
Boston Globe • November 2004
David Prentice, a senior fellow with the Family Research Council, appeared before a Senate committee this fall to share some good news about stem cells. Around
Read more →Harvard teams want OK to clone Human — cell work would be first in nation
Boston Globe • October 2004
Two separate teams of Harvard scientists are preparing to produce cloned embryos for disease research, and one has officially applied for permission from the university's
Read more →Desperate parents chase a stem-cell miracle
Boston Globe • September 2004
This article was part of a series recognized with the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. Additional information on EmCell is available here. SUTTON — Many
Read more →Absence of data on clinic's therapies provokes skepticism
Boston Globe • September 2004
This article ran with "Desperate parents chase a stem-cell miracle" in the Boston Globe. It was part of a series recognized with the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in
Read more →US stem cell research lagging
Boston Globe • May 2004
BRNO, Czech Republic -- Last spring, biologist Petr Dvorak's cellphone rang with the news that his lab, a simple cement building not far from the
Read more →After 2 children via IVF, pair faced stem cell issue
Boston Globe • April 2004
WEYMOUTH — When the letter arrived last spring at this gray-shingled house by the water, it was a reminder of some of the most joyous
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