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THE AIR MAN needs a fresh hit. It's a beautiful summer morning. Dew shines on the grass. Birds chirp. What a glorious day to contemplate the air. I had contacted [...]

'You know, cement is everywhere,' Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, an environmental engineer at Imperial College in London, says while sitting in a brightly lit college conference room in a hulking seven-story building [...]

FINDING GEORGE WHITESIDES IS OFTEN TRICKY EVEN for George Whitesides. So he keeps an envelope in his jacket pocket. "I don't actually know where I am in general until I [...]

The Cincinnati branch of HobbyTown USA is located in an old strip mall on the outskirts of the city, in between a Payless shoe store and an H&R Block. One [...]

Robert Webster was in the backyard of his home in Memphis doing some landscaping. This was in the early winter of 1997, a Saturday. He was mixing compost, a chore […]

People frequently mischaracterize Dr. Fuller Torrey's feelings about cats. The other day, an acquaintance gave him a present-a framed five-by-seven photograph of a white kitten sitting on a windowsill, his [...]

COULD A NASAL SHOT of hormones make a person more compassionate and less socially awkward? That's the thinking behind new research from scientists at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine [...]

The article focusses on several impacts of coronavirus pandemic on journalism including closure of newsrooms, pay cut and layoffs, as of September 2020. It presents views of Sherry Chisenhall, editor of the newspaper "Charlotte Observer" on the future of journalism without newsrooms and its advantage for local journalists. It also highlights the challenges posed by remote work on journalists. INSET: Up, Up, and Away.

Byline: Michael Rosenwald, Andrew Rosenblum, Michael Slenske, Corey Binns, Jason Daley Once upon a time, a neurosurgeon's best friends were a buzz saw and a knife. Now, robotic hands offer [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald, Kalee Thompson Q WHY DO BOYS AND GIRLS FIGHT DIFFERENTLY? A Science is still some way from explaining why boys throw punches and girls pull hair on [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Using computer-controlled generators that write on water, Japanese shipbuilders bring us the world's first 'wave pen' IN A DEVELOPMENT we can only label Really Cool but Almost [...]

Last fall, a couple of candy men took a lunchtime stroll around South Street Seaport. The younger of the two was Paul Cherrie, a confectioner who had recently tripled the [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald A routine heart drug shows promise as a way to blunt bad memories CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST Alain Brunet of McGill University in Montreal doesn't usually torture his patients. [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Michael Costen, a Connecticut inventor, wants to heat your water using potato-chip bags. Well, not actual bags of Lays, but the material that prevents them from going [...]

Michael Witte, an illustrator, enjoys his work but finds that the artist's life can be lonely. So, a few years ago, to relieve the monotony of his days, he installed [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald What's left of the General Tso's chicken is on the coffee table. The sauce that eluded my mouth is congealing on my T-shirt. American Idol just started. [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Laura Allen They fell for each other in grade school, in the sweetest of ways. In fifth-grade music class, she played saxophone; he played the snare drum. [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Shih-Ger Chang, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has developed a recipe to feed astronauts on a three-year round-trip mission to Mars. His secret [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Kids get cavities. Dentists fill them. It's a fairly old arrangement, but it may soon come to an end if cavities go the way of smallpox. Jeffrey [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald If Behrokh Khoshnevis has his way, the on-demand world of movies, TV, Internet connections, you name it, will have a home under on-demand roofs. Khoshnevis, a University [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Among the work hazards a drug dealer can encounter during his day-to-day operations in Baltimore are competitors, or even just some fellows who don't like him, who [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Finally, a scanner that keeps pace with the urban emergency room: The Statscan is a digital X-ray device that can produce a full-body image in 13 seconds. [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Researchers at the University of Western Australia and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first semi-living artist. Right now, the project consists of a [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Here's another item to make the foes of genetically modified foods jittery: decaf coffee with the same smoothness, aroma and taste as a regular cup of joe--minus [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald In a few months, researchers at the University of Southern California will test the world's first prosthetic brain part. Biomedical engineer Theodore Berger has created a 2 [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Picture this: a loved one sits directly across from you sipping coffee, but when you look at his or her face you see a gaping black splotch. [...]

Byline: Michael Rosenwald Edited By Charles Hirshberg Universities are not known for turning down money, so Julie T. Norris had to be pretty fed up to reject a recent research [...]

The matter of Jack Ass v. Viacom International Inc. concerns an electrical lineman in Montana named Jack Ass, who stumbled upon the MTV show 'Jackass' two years ago and was [...]

Deadly counterfeit drugs are everywhere. Here's the new tech to bust them. GROWING UP in Pakistan in the 1980s, Muhammad Zaman and his family always knew which pharmacy to trust [...]

The article the history of duels and death attempts made at journalists in U.S focusing on the history of press threats in the country. Topics include history of journalism in U.S., President Donald Trump's war on media, laws and amendments related into journalism and press coverage. Also discussed is the relations between politics and journalism in the 19th century U.S.

'The hallmark of public libraries--the printed book, bound by covers and centuries of page-turning--is being shoved aside by digital doppelgangers. Around the country, libraries are slashing their print collections in [...]

People who have lost an arm have not traditionally had much hope of ever regaining meaningful function. Prosthetic arms have been controlled in a rudimentary way, by transforming residual shoulder […]

The article focuses on media literacy in the U.S. Topics discussed include teaching students about media environment; relationship between media and politics; and establishment of Institute for Propaganda Analysis by ex-journalist named Clyde Miller, which designed curriculum for educators to teach students regarding the seven different propaganda devices.

The article discusses the staffing moves that signals moving newsrooms away from the centers of cities and towns and the readers who are engaged in websites and paper print editions. Topics discussed include views of editor Brian McGrory on news organizations, reader behavior that can be understood through online news consumers, and views of editors at the Morning News on boring stories.

The article discusses the incidences of disinformation in the history of the U.S. The article reports that in early 2017, the U.S. government released findings from an investigation showing that Russian president Vladimir Putin, had ordered an unprecedented influence campaign. It mentions that the campaign involved disinformation and computer hacking.

The article presents an analysis of the relevance and popularity of print media in comparison to digital media. It is reported that print media is more popular among people than digital media. It presents the views of Iris Chyi, associate professor at University of Texas, on the same in reference to her book "Trial and Error: U.S. Newspapers' Digital Struggles Toward Inferiority."

Rob Spence doesn't think it's odd that he replaced his false eye with a wireless video camera. 'You took at the size of the camera on your cellphone and at [...]

TO GRASP the power of Toshiba's new Aquilion ONE computed-tomography (CT) scanner, imagine facing a picturesque beach. Your camera doesn't have a panoramic function, so you take snapshots pointing to [...]

Athletes have forever been scheming up innovative ways to get ahead--going back to the Greeks lifting heavy rocks and extending over time to dumbbells, Nike Air, steroids, the cream, and [...]

BRANDON BOLLING is amarine captain and military defense attorney who defends soldiers for smoking pot on base or killing people they weren't supposed to kill, like their wives. He is [...]

The article discusses Nikolaos Vlasopoulos, an environmental engineer who has developed a form of cement which uses magnesium oxide and produces less carbon dioxide than Portland cement. Portland cement uses limestone, a stone which is made primarily of calcium carbonate and emits carbon dioxide when it is heated, contributing to global warming. Vlasopoulos and the engineer Christopher Cheeseman have founded the company Novacem to conduct research on cement and have partnered with the construction company Laing O'Rourke, the building materials company Lafarge, and the mining company Rio Tinto.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of losing 50 pounds of his weight by joining the diet center My Weight Doctor.

This article focuses on a regenerative technique developed by Dr. Stephen Badylak at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He uses an extracellular matrix made from ground-up pigs' bladders or intestines that tricks the body into regenerating instead of scarring. The pig powder was applied to HobbyTown USA assistant manager Lee Spievack who accidentally cut his finger off and the finger grew back.

The article reports on Robert Webster, the world's foremost expert on avian influenza, and his attempts to identify the disease and alert people about its potential impact. When cases were first discovered in Hong Kong in 1997, Webster went to that city's markets to take samples for research, armed with a rudimentary vaccine. Through research into strains of avian influenza in the 1960s, Webster discovered that pandemics are caused by new strains of flu virus that are created by the mixing of avian and human strains of the flu. He postulates that pigs are the most likely mixing ground. Webster is advising the U.S. government on handling the predicted pandemic and has a research center set up in Hong Kong.

This article notes a study on the link between schizophrenia and house cats being conducted by E. Fuller Torrey, a U.S. research psychiatrist. Torrey's theory is that cats transmit a toxic agent to children that later causes them to become schizophrenic. To prove his theory, Torrey collects the brains of the mentally ill.

Focuses on the use of global positioning system (GPS) in stalking. Kinds of stalkers according to a 1999 study published in the "American Journal of Psychiatry"; Comments from Tracy Bahm, director of the Stalking Resource Center for Victims of Crime, on the awareness of people on GPS; Information on several entrepreneurs that sell spy devices on the Internet.