Elizabeth Landau
Future fruit: Meet the farmers painstakingly developing colorful and tastier new apple varieties
Imagine reaching up to a tree branch and plucking an apple that’s unusually tall and narrow — a variety called ...
The ‘storm in their minds’: How the gap between laboratory insights and clinical analysis is narrowing
When someone close to you develops signs of mental illness, you spring into detective mode. You ask questions, but the answers ...
Exploring the boundary between consciousness and slumber
What was once seen as the neurological equivalent of annoying television static may have profound implications for how scientists study ...
Why grandmothers might be a driving force behind human evolution
[Kristen] Hawkes, a professor of anthropology at the University of Utah, has extensively studied the Hadza, a group of hunter-gatherers ...
Meet the scientists who research mosquitoes by feeding them their own blood
The colony was picky — it wouldn’t feed on anesthetized mice or drink from a container covered with a membrane ...
James Watson: ‘DNA was my only gold rush’
The following is an edited excerpt. Having shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery with Crick and Maurice Wilkins in ...