Latest articles by Charlie Heck
Rain with Chance of West Nile: Weather Could Predict Outbreaks (Podcast)
Predicting West Nile outbreaks may soon become as common as predicting the weather.
A Better Way to Forecast Hurricanes (Podcast)
How many hurricanes will the United States really get this year?
Slave-Trade Fossils Help Uncover Shrouded History (Podcast)
Ancient DNA is now helping identify specific origins of slave skeletons found in Caribbean.
Not Just a Band-Aid: How ‘Smart Bandages’ Will Change Medicine (Video)
In a few years, you won't need to check under your Band-Aid to see how well that cut is healing.
Could This 'Thinking Cap' Help You Learn?
How to (safely) give the brain a little electro-boost.
Will Warming Surge as Arctic Microbes Feast on Defrosting Carbon?
Scientists are racing against climate change to determine the impact of thawing Arctic soils and the carbon released during that process.
Reinventing How Chemicals are Made
Researchers are busy building the scaffolding for next-generation chemistry.
Researchers Crack Sea Ice to Expose Arctic Food Web (VIDEO)
A warming planet is impacting sea-ice algae, triggering a food-chain domino effect that leads to whales and polar bears.
Sea Ice Algae is Staple of Arctic Food Chain (Gallery)
To find the base of the Arctic food chain, scientists have to venture far out, and into, sea ice.
