Ebola: bats get a bad rap when it comes to spreading diseases
By Alexandra Kamins, Colorado Hospital Association; Marcus Rowcliffe, Zoological Society of London, and Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge
In an era flush with vaccines and...
What We’ve Learned From Four Years of Diving Into Dollars for Docs
by Charles Ornstein, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones ProPublica, Sep. 29, 2014, 9:20 a.m.
This story was co-published with The New York Times.
On Tuesday,...
How gut bacteria ensure a healthy brain – and could play a role in treating...
By Clio Korn, University of Oxford
One of medicine’s greatest innovations in the 20th century was the development of antibiotics. It transformed our ability to...
Conservatives’ crack team of superteachers will need the patience of Gandhi
By James Williams, University of Sussex
As a theme for Hollywood filmmakers, the crack team of experts sent in where others dare to tread to...
Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Sep. 30, 2014, 9:47 p.m.
The federal government unveiled data Tuesday detailing 4.4 million payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals...
Fracking boom could mean up to 12% more carbon emissions
By Erik Bichard, University of Salford
The consistent message from those who would seek to exploit shale gas is that it has three distinct advantages...
Germany’s green energy gamble could really use some vorsprung durch technik
By Thomas Sattich, Universität Bremen
Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s? State-of-the-art at that time, they left their competitors...
