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Carina Storrs
Carina Storrs • August 13, 2009
Neuroscientists at New York University study longtime meditators to glean insight into how our brains work.
Carina Storrs • July 27, 2009
Scientists at the Nature Conservancy move a new batch of mollusks into Great South Bay to shore up the clam comeback.
Carina Storrs • June 15, 2009
Could the mollusks of Long Island’s Great South Bay make a comeback?
Carina Storrs • May 16, 2009
Vehicles could get a boost in gas mileage from GenShock, a shock absorber developed by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Carina Storrs • May 1, 2009
The New York City Department of Transportation offers school kids from neighborhoods with high rates of traffic accidents a crash course in navigating sidewalks, crosswalks and seat belts.
Carina Storrs • April 3, 2009
New tricks to breed sexier Mediterranean fruit flies could improve control of an important agricultural pest.
Carina Storrs • January 28, 2009
Exposure to space radiation on long-term interplanetary voyages could threaten astronauts’ health and thwart manned missions.
Carina Storrs • January 13, 2009
Alexis Gambis brings science and film together to create a new genre of science fiction.
Carina Storrs • January 5, 2009
The muscle-relaxing power of Botox has been wielded for so many different treatments—from frown lines and forehead wrinkles to neck spasms—that the drug has been touted as the aspirin of the 21st […]
Carina Storrs • December 30, 2008
A glass of red wine or a few too many has been known to make morning-after memory a touch foggy. But, in moderation, this beverage may prove a potent adversary […]
Carina Storrs • December 16, 2008
Clarinet with whale songs: click to listen Distorted clarinet riffs filled the air. Then howls, hauntingly low and distant, syncopated by short squeals accompanied them. The duet was no experimental […]
Carina Storrs • November 14, 2008
Geneticists hope their stem cell research will find new drugs against this debilitating disease.
Carina Storrs • October 14, 2008
In the early 1980s, bets would probably have been on virologist Robert Gallo, then at the National Cancer Institute, to win a Nobel Prize. At a time when scientists were […]