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Erich Jarvis dreamed of becoming a ballet star. Now the scientist's studies of how birds learn to sing are forging a new understanding of the human brain
Even IRS auditors will tremble in my presence
The battle of the bulge goes global
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To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
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For years, Robert Webster has been warning of a global influenza outbreak. Now governments worldwide are finally listening to him
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Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
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His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
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Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
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After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
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Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late
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Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines
Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans
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Researchers make an annual pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio, to study inherited traits
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Are you a superstar? Just stick out your tongue and say "yuck"
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A Los Angeles scientist says living cells may make distinct sounds, which might someday help doctors "hear" diseases
A San Francisco scientist's genetic research renews the ancient hope for a way to slow aging
Raymond Damadian refuses to take his failure to win a Nobel Prize, for a prototype MRI machine, lying down
Our writer tries to just say no to getting older
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Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
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No one knows if SARS will strike again. But researchers' speedy work halting the epidemic makes a compelling case study of how to combat a deadly virus
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