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Wallace Broecker

Wallace Broecker Geochemist, Palisades, New York

How to stop global warming? CO2 "scrubbers," a new book says
June 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

title page for On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of a Theory

Charles Darwin's bid for enduring fame was sparked 150 years ago by word of a rival's research
June 2008 | By Richard Conniff

Patricia Zaradic

Patricia Zaradic, Conservation Ecologist, Pennsylvania

The trouble with "videophilia"
April 2008 | By Megan Gambino

In the summer of 2005, Austrian-born field biologist Gudrun Pflueger set out on a quest to find the elusive Canadian coast wolves. "I really think that good observation of our animals is still a very important and necessary part of understanding them

Wolf Tracker

Biologist Gudrun Pflueger talks about her encounter with a Canadian pack
March 11, 2008 | By Megan Gambino

Q and A With the Rhino Man

Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros
March 01, 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Van Roosmalen was let out of jail this past August. "In the best light he was naive," says a colleague.

Trials of a Primatologist

How did a renowned scientist who has done groundbreaking research in Brazil run afoul of authorities there?
February 2008 | By Joshua Hammer

Symbolically Speaking

A Q&A with hieroglyphs expert Janice Kamrin
November 05, 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Wong

Midas Touch

To clean highly polluted groundwater, Michael Wong has developed a detergent based on gold
October 2007 | By William Booth

Why does the human immune system sometimes fail to thwart invaders? John Wherry is trying to find out, the better to design a more effective flu vaccine.

Flu Fighter

With a possible pandemic in our future, immunologist John Wherry is racing to develop a once-a-lifetime vaccine
October 2007 | By Arthur Allen

“His scientific contributions are joyful, spark curiosity and inspire the young,” computer scientist Jeannette Wing says of her colleague Luis von Ahn (on the Carnegie Mellon campus, seated upon one of the “guest chairs” he keeps in his office).

The Player

Luis von Ahn's secret for making computers smarter? Get thousands of people to take part in his cunning online games
October 2007 | By Polly Shulman

VanDerwarker (examining detritus at Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College, where she worked until June) asks “fundamental questions about how people lived in the past.”

Down to Earth

Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate
October 2007 | By Andrew Lawler

tao

Primed for Success

Terence Tao is regarded as first among equals among young mathematicians, but who's counting
October 2007 | By Dana Mackenzie

Jeremi Suri

The Big Picture

Political historian Jeremi Suri has come up with a new way of looking at the links between the low and the mighty
October 2007 | By Heather Laroi

Beth Shapiro holding head of dodo bird

How to Make a Dodo

Biologist Beth Shapiro has figured out a recipe for success in the field of ancient DNA research
October 2007 | By Andrew Curry

“All the issues out there sound so good—lower taxes, privatization of government services, neighborhood schools,” says Kruse (near Princeton, New Jersey, in July 2007). “But you can’t just buy into the ‘Leave it to Beaver’ mythology.”

Civil Wrongs

In a painstaking study of 1960s Atlanta, Kevin Kruse takes suburban whites to task
October 2007 | By Dick Polman

Jon Kleinberg has found that even within networks of Web users, people tend to have relationships with people not so far away.

Net Worker

Where are your friends in cyberspace? Closer than you might think, says Internet researcher Jon Kleinberg
October 2007 | By Matt Dellinger

Assuming we’re not alone in the universe, where should we look for extraterrestrials? Lisa Kaltenegger (in front of a Cambridge, Massachusetts, telescope that was the largest in the United States during the mid-1800s) knows how to identify likely locations for life.

Signs of Life

Astrophysicist Lisa Kaltenegger analyzes light from distant stars for evidence we're not alone
October 2007 | By Charles Seife

“It’s not unfair to say that we have been completely misled” by studying mostly museum-quality specimens, says O’Dea (gathering fossils in Bocas del Toro along Panama’s Caribbean coast).

Shell Fame

Paleobiologist Aaron O'Dea has made his name by sweating the small stuff
October 2007 | By Laura Helmuth

A film about primatologist Jane Goodall inspired Hare to follow in her footsteps, a quest he first embarked upon at about age 9. (Twenty-two years later, Hare is embraced by an orphaned bonobo named Malou at a sanctuary in Congo).

Dogged

Primatologist Brian Hare investigates the social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos in Africa. But dogs and foxes showed him the way
October 2007 | By Virginia Morell

It is possible to see the world in a grain of sand—big chunks of the world, anyway, including the Himalayas and other mountain ranges (Elizabeth Catlos at Oklahoma State University with a piece of granite whose grains may reveal the history of Turkey’s Menderes Massif.)

Rock of Ages

Where did the world's highest mountains come from? Geologist Elizabeth Catlos takes a new view
October 2007 | By J. Madeleine Nash


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