Features | January-February 2005
From quantum materials design to “voodoo physics” in the nanoscientists’ weird world
Right Now | November-December 2004
Caloric restriction, touted as a possible way to increase human life span, has gotten a lot of press lately. Research on rats and mice has shown...
Features | September-October 2004
I set out to solve a mystery," says Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt. "The basic facts of Shakespeare's life have been...
Features | July-August 2004
Portraits by Stu Rosner The next time you look in a mirror, reflect on this: the face staring back at you is literally not the same one you...
Features | March-April 2004
From survival of the fittest to staying fit just to survive, scientists probe the benefits of exercise.
Features | September-October 2003
At a research station in the Dominican cloud forest, Brian Farrell has just seen, out of the corner of his eye, a prize buzzing by. Ditching his...
Features | July-August 2003
Not slaves. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.
Features | January-February 2003
In a Marist monastery in southern Bavaria, 11-year-old Hans Hofmann began his classical education. "I studied Greek, Latin, and...
Features | November-December 2002
During a recent Alaska study cruise cosponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, James J. McCarthy stopped at several islands with...
Right Now | May-June 2002
Sometimes the most exciting scientific discoveries are made almost by accident. Researchers in the laboratory of Eric Mazur, McKay professor of...
Features | January-February 2002
Post-doctoral fellow Gary Gillis plays "catcher" behind a tammar wallaby on a fast-moving treadmill. Hopping marsupials like...
When people started dying of inhalation anthrax in 1979 in Sverdlovsk, in the former Soviet Union, it took "six days to discern the outbreak...
