Erin O'Donnell
Effects of sleep loss can be masked, not erased
A long night’s rest merely masks the effects of chronic sleep loss.
Right Now | January-February 2009
Does Thinking Make It So?
In The Cure Within, historian of science Anne Harrington explores the medical history of the mind-body connection.
Climate Change Solutions?
Electrochemcial weathering: a new CO2 mitigation strategy...
When Minnie Turns Mickey
If males are from Mars and females from Venus, as self-help author John Gray memorably suggested, sex hormones usually get the blame for placing...
Right Now | September-October 2007
Slowing Sperm
Many women fantasize about it: a male birth-control pill. After all, most existing contraceptives place sole responsibility for preventing...
Right Now | September-October 2006
Latinos Nix Violence
First-generation immigrants are more likely to be law-abiding than third-generation Americans of similar socioeconomic status, reports Robert...
Features | January-February 2006
Twigs Bent Left of Right
How did Franklin Delano Roosevelt ’04, born in 1882 to a privileged, aristocratic life in New York’s Hudson River Valley, become a...
Rocks into Gas
Geologists have long believed that the world's supply of oil and natural gas came from the decay of primordial plant and animal matter, which...
Fertility and Destiny
Current low birthrates among highly educated women pose a challenge to the U.S. economy and may compound existing social problems, says David...
Right Now | September-October 2004
Blackboard Brain Drain
When children return to classrooms this fall, they're less likely than ever to find a very smart teacher standing at the front of the class...
Upside for Downloads
Last year, pop star Madonna went on the attack in the war over file sharing, the popular but illegal practice of downloading copyrighted music...
Pliable Paradigms
If ever someone understood the challenges of changing people's minds, it was Charles Darwin. After doing his research in the Galápagos...