Jonathan Shaw

Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, <em><a href="http://www.powells.com/partner/30264/biblio/9780385526197">Blindspot</a></em>, (Random House, $24.95)

Montage | November-December 2008

Blindspot: A Novel

History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.

One form of the Rocky Mountain monkey flower has a long trumpet suited to pollination by hummingbirds; the other is pollinated by bumblebees. Their hybrid offspring don’t do well in the wild, however, because they are not easily fertilized by the birds or the bees.

Right Now | July-August 2008

What Stress Reveals

Biologist Susan Lindquist investigates how HSP90 (heat-shock protein 90), a protein chaperone, provides a molecular mechanism that may help explain punctuated equilibrium in evolution...

Features | July-August 2008

Hubble space telescope photographs explained

The cosmic drama, as seen from a vantage in space: Harvard astronomers highlight important images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope

Mycobacteria form greasy, fatty-looking colonies. Their thick lipid coatings may play a role in allowing them to survive an onslught of antibiotics.

Features | July-August 2008

Where Does Tuberculosis Hide?

The fight against an ancient scourge shifts to new battlegrounds...

Features | July-August 2008

The Tenacious, Mysterious Case of Tuberculosis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains a black box, and scientists have begun to wonder if it operates by a different set of biological rules than those they are familiar with...

John Harvard's Journal | July-August 2008