by Matt Davenport | Oct 30, 2013 | Posts
“You realize I’m sending you into that mosh pit by yourself, right?” my editor asked while we waited outside a giant white tent. I thought mosh pit was a little severe. The tent was more reminiscent of an overcrowded polka tent I had once worked in during an...
by Julia Calderone | Oct 29, 2013 | Posts
For the past few months, my iPhone has been tracking my movements while I sleep. This isn’t because I’ve fallen victim to a National Security Agency sting (at least as far as I know). I have programmed my phone to keep close tabs on me – on purpose. Of the many...
by Nicholas St. Fleur | Oct 28, 2013 | Posts
Have you ever spent a relaxing afternoon at a local park watching as kid after kid joyfully files down a playground slide? And every now and then there’s that one wise aleck who refuses to get off the end of the slide and causes a congestion of children to pile...
by Patricia Waldron | Oct 24, 2013 | Posts
A jogger found the bloodstained and filthy body of Kristopher Olinger by the side of the road one September morning in 1997. The last time anyone saw the 17-year-old from Pacific Grove, CA was at midnight, when he went out to photograph the ocean for a school project....
by Molly Sharlach | Oct 23, 2013 | Posts
I could learn a lot from my spit if I wanted to. Thanks to advances in DNA sequencing, I could send my spit off for personal genomic testing and find out my predicted risks for hundreds of diseases and conditions. But I haven’t. After years of studying the genetics of...
by SciCom | Aug 19, 2013 | Posts
Deadly mushrooms, endangered white abalone, iPad speech therapy, resurrected passenger pigeons, mysterious dark energy, bombarded satellites, a revised theory of sexual selection and a prickly way to cure a horrible skin condition… These nine feature stories...
by Ryder Diaz | Jun 6, 2013 | Posts
Many people squirm at the thought of picking up a live scorpion. But biologist Lauren Esposito is on a quest to find and identify every scorpion in the Caribbean. Searching for scorpions Lauren Esposito collects scorpions in the...
by Paul Gabrielsen | Jun 4, 2013 | Posts
There’s a hole in the bottom of the ocean near Japan, the deepest ever drilled for science, that leads to the heart of one of the world’s most dangerous faults. Two years ago this fault, which marks the spot where one tectonic plate grinds past another, unleashed the...
by Chris Palmer | May 29, 2013 | Posts
Evolutionary biologist J.B.S. Haldane, alluding to the enormous number of insect species roaming the earth, is often quoted as saying, “If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness...
by Kelly Servick | May 23, 2013 | Posts
I liked music as a kid because it felt creative and spontaneous. Ideas for songs popped out of my brain and surprised me. But as I muddled through piano lessons, squinting at inky lines that read like formulas while my teacher tisked over my shoulder, I started to...
by Liz Devitt | May 21, 2013 | Posts
Brandon Southall is adept at inhabiting vastly different worlds—similar to the elephant seals and sea lions he studies. While the marine mammals successfully navigate the opposing environments of land and water, Southall is a marine scientist who moves smoothly among...
by Laura Poppick | May 16, 2013 | Posts
We’re all enjoying these days leading up to summer, with the Monterey Bay shining clear and blue. But we know these times are fleeting. Come fall, algae will start to bloom. Clear blue waves will turn brown and red, seabirds and marine mammals will get sick,...
