Author Archives
Robert Goodier
Robert Goodier • October 5, 2009
History's lessons on the resurgence of a disease.
Robert Goodier • September 10, 2009
Scientists track the city's wildlife with binoculars, ink pads and motion-triggered cameras.
Robert Goodier • August 31, 2009
The World's Largest Fusion Reactors Are Under Construction but Cheap Energy Is Still Just a Dream
Robert Goodier • August 10, 2009
A New Dimension in Urban Farming
Robert Goodier • July 2, 2009
The nascent field of DNA nanotech takes baby steps toward a stellar future
Robert Goodier • May 20, 2009
A new brain imaging tool may show us how our brains work.
Robert Goodier • May 11, 2009
Pigs cough up a mish-mashed flu virus, something scientists saw coming for years.
Robert Goodier • February 6, 2009
Eric Kandel has a gulping, throaty laugh, the rare kind that sounds like a goose might if it could honk as it inhales. It’s contagious, not just because the sound […]
Robert Goodier • January 27, 2009
An underwater spy and the man who's building it.
Robert Goodier • January 9, 2009
In Latin America, little-known infections are as harmful as malaria or HIV, but their treatment is cheap.
Robert Goodier • January 2, 2009
Disease hunters target an ancient form of life.
Robert Goodier • December 2, 2008
Biofilms. They’re like Frankenstein’s monster in microscopic form. They are living, heaving, powerful patchworks of microscopic creatures that have learned to seize the advantage of numbers. When individual, free-wheeling microbes […]