How Cellphones Helped Researchers Track Malaria In Kenya
Cellphones are popping up all over in health care these days. They’re monitoring our blood sugar, tracking the flu season …
How A Sleepy Pennsylvania Town Grew Into America’s Mushroom Capital
Here’s an astonishing fact: Half of America’s mushrooms are grown in one tiny corner of southeastern Pennsylvania, near the town …
‘May We Be Forgiven’: A Story Of Second Chances
A.M. Homes is a writer I’ll pretty much follow anywhere because she’s indeed so smart, it’s scary; yet she’s not …
‘Mars Attacks’ At 50: A Look Back At A Bloody Battle
Mars Attacks: 50th Anniversary Collection, an anthology of the 1962 trading card series from the Topps Company and Abrams Comic …
In Digital War, Patents Are The Weapon Of Choice
If you don’t think of patents as a particularly exciting or interesting field, consider a point Charles Duhigg makes in …
A Shooting Foreshadowed By Taliban Threats
A 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl remains in critical condition after being shot in the head for defying the Taliban, and championing …
Ways Ohio Could Swing The Election
Kentucky may be the site for tonight’s debate between the vice presidential candidates, but the monster swing state of Ohio …
Mo Yan’s ‘Hallucinatory Realism’ Wins Lit Nobel
Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of …
Bioethicists Call For Privacy Protections For Personal Genomes
When a stranger can gain access to someone’s entire genetic code by picking up a used coffee cup, it presents …
100 Years Ago, Maillard Taught Us Why Our Food Tastes Better Cooked
A few hundred scientists gathered in the small French city of Nancy recently to present scientific papers related to a …
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