Leading Surgeon Is Accused of Misconduct in Experimental Transplant Operations
By HENRY FOUNTAIN A doctor who is considered a pioneer in the field of regenerative medicine has denied […]
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Obesity and Its Heart Complications
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. Does a girl who enters adolescence with a big woman’s body have a harder […]
Climbing a Glass Building? Try a Gecko’s Sticky Pads
By JAMES GORMAN The lizard and, well, Spider-Man, have ideal tools for scaling slippery surfaces. Engineers have copied […]
On the Trail of an Ancient Mystery
By JOHN MARKOFF More than 100 years after it was found, and more than 2,000 years after it […]
Art in a Whisky Glass, Neatly Explained
By KENNETH CHANG After having a Scotch years ago, a photographer saw beauty at the bottom. Then he […]
Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas
The scene might have been considered serene if it weren’t for the tornado. During 2004 in Kansas, storm […]
A Lifesaving Transplant for Coral Reefs
By RICHARD MORIN A quick-grow laboratory technique, called microfragmenting, may make it possible to mass-produce reef-building corals for […]
Solar Flare from a Sharper Sun
Solar active region AR2192 was the largest recorded sunspot group of the last 24 years. Before rotating off […]
M1: The Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier’s famous 18th century list of […]
Living Higher, Thanks to Barley
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA A study of ancient life on the Tibetan Plateau indicates it was the ability to […]