Scientist of the Week
Scientist of the Week: Yaroslav Urzhumov
May 16, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsYaroslav Urzhumov, from Duke Univ., and a team used a 3D printer to make an invisibility cloak.
Scientists of the Week: Inga Kadisha
May 9, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsInga Kadisha, from the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, and a team found that the feeling of hunger itself may protect against Alzheimer’s disease.
Scientist of the Week: Tobias Hoch
May 2, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsTobias Hoch, from the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, and a team studied hedonic hyperphagia— eating for pleasure not hunger— and found that people really can’t eat just one potato chip.
Scientist of the Week: Robert Scholten
April 25, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsRobert Scholten, from Univ. of Melbourne, and a team made a discovery that is an important step toward making ultrafast high-resolution electron imaging a reality.
Scientist of the Week: Amal Kaddoumi
April 18, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsAmal Kaddoumi, from The Univ. of Louisiana at Monroe, and a team found that consumption of extra virgin olive oil reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease as a component of the oil helps shuttle abnormal proteins out of the brain.
Scientist of the Week: Laura Sherman
April 11, 2013 8:29 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsLaura Sherman, from the Univ. of Michigan, and a team found that a common test overestimates mercury exposure from dental fillings.
Scientist of the Week: Gareth Morgan
April 4, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsGareth Morgan, of the Smithsonian Institution, and a team found that the face of Mars is dotted with a maze of channels, pointing to possible ancient megaflood episodes.
Scientist of the Week: Joshua Pearce
March 28, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsJoshua Pearce, of Michigan Technological Univ., and a team use milk jugs as material for 3D printing.
Scientist of the Week: Mi-Hyeon Jang
March 21, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsMi-Hyeon Jang, from the Mayo Clinic, and a team identified how antidepressant drugs work.
Scientist of the Week: Xavier Calmet
March 14, 2013 8:56 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsXavier Calmet from Univ. of Sussex, and a team studied how the Higgs boson interacts with gravity and took a small step toward fulfilling Einstein’s dream of proving there is only one fundamental force in nature.
Scientist of the Week: Avi Loeb
March 7, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsAvi Loeb, from Harvard Univ., and a team are looking to dying stars in a search for evidence of alien life.
Scientist of the Week: Tom Higham
February 28, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsTom Higham, from the Univ. of Oxford, and a team found that Neanderthals went extinct in Europe much earlier than previously thought.
Scientist of the Week: Tom Smulders
February 21, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsTom Smulders, from Newcastle Univ., and a team found that water-wrinkled fingers have an evolutionary purpose.
Scientist of the Week: Lena Brundin
February 14, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsLena Brundin, from Michigan State Univ., and a team found that a chemical in the brain called glutamate is linked to suicidal behavior, offering new hope for efforts to prevent people from taking their own lives.
Scientist of the Week: Steven Davis
February 7, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsSteven Davis from the Univ. of California, Irvine, researched climate change and found that a fundamental overhaul of the global energy system is needed to stop emissions.
Scientist a Week: Cheryl Rosenfeld
January 31, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsCheryl Rosenfeld, from the Univ. of Missouri, and a team researched BPA and learned that their finding did not match previous studies on the chemical.
Scientist of the Week: David Dilcher
January 24, 2013 7:00 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsDavid Dilcher, from Indiana Univ., and a team solved Darwin’s abominable mystery— the apparently sudden appearance and rapid spread of flowering plants in the fossil record.
Scientist of the Week: Ervan Garrison
January 17, 2013 8:38 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsErvan Garrison, from the Univ. of Georgia, and a team discovered a 36,000-year-old whale fossil.
Scientist of the Week: Mounir Laroussi
January 10, 2013 8:27 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsMounir Laroussi, from Old Dominion Univ., and a team found that plasma beams can kill cancer cells while keeping the healthy cells intact.
Scientist of the Week: Frederick Lepore
December 13, 2012 8:24 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsFrederick Lepore, from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and a team studied newly discovered photographs taken in 1955 of Einstein’s brain and compared it to 85 typical brains, highlighting the unique features behind Einstein’s genius.
Scientist of the Week: Lee Friedman
December 6, 2012 8:30 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsLee Friedman, from the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and a team found that injured patients were less likely to die in the hospital if they had alcohol in their blood.
Scientist of the Week: Aaron Davis
November 29, 2012 8:37 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsAaron Davis, from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and a team found that coffee in the wild may go extinct in 70 years.
Scientist of the Week: Duncan Leitch
November 15, 2012 8:24 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsDuncan Leitch, from Vanderbilt Univ., and a team found that alligators and crocodiles have an incredibly keen sense of touch.
Scientist of the Week: Andrea Nicol
November 8, 2012 8:41 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsAndrea Nicol, from UCLA, and a team found that Botulinum toxin type A (BOTOX) injections significantly improve pain and quality of life in people with chronic bilateral posterior neck and shoulder myofascial pain syndrome.
Scientist of the Week: Ellen Butcher
November 1, 2012 9:58 am | by Lily Barback, Associate Editor | News | CommentsEllen Butcher, from the Zoological Society of London, worked on a team that published a new list of the species closest to extinction called “Priceless or Worthless.”
