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Carina Storrs

August 13, 2009

Neuroscientists at New York University study longtime meditators to glean insight into how our brains work.

July 27, 2009

Scientists at the Nature Conservancy move a new batch of mollusks into Great South Bay to shore up the clam comeback.

June 15, 2009

Could the mollusks of Long Island’s Great South Bay make a comeback?

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.

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.

April 3, 2009

New tricks to breed sexier Mediterranean fruit flies could improve control of an important agricultural pest.

January 28, 2009

Exposure to space radiation on long-term interplanetary voyages could threaten astronauts’ health and thwart manned missions.

January 13, 2009

Alexis Gambis brings science and film together to create a new genre of science fiction.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

November 14, 2008

Geneticists hope their stem cell research will find new drugs against this debilitating disease.

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 […]

 
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