Emily Sohn

All Stories by Emily Sohn

  1. Health & Medicine

    Football Scrapes and Nasty Infections

    The scrapes suffered by professional football players on the field can lead to serious skin infections.

  2. Animals

    Insects Take a Breather

    Many types of insects appear to control how much oxygen they take in.

  3. Tech

    Chocolate Rules

    Scientists unravel the mysteries of what makes chocolate yummy and even good for you.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Lost Sight, Found Sound

    Brain areas devoted to vision can take on other duties following loss of sight.

  5. Plants

    How a Venus Flytrap Snaps Shut

    A Venus flytrap stores energy to allow its hinged leaves to snap shut quickly.

  6. Space

    Black hole journey

    Research on weird, invisible objects called black holes might help explain how the universe began.

  7. Planets

    Unveiling Titan

    A space probe that landed on Saturn's frigid moon Titan found a landscape that looks a lot like Earth.

  8. Tech

    Musclebots Take Some Steps

    Researchers have let loose scores of walking micromachines made from heart muscle.

  9. Environment

    The wolf and the cow

    Can livestock and predators share the same land?

  10. Fossils

    Dino takeout for mammals

    Ancient mammals dined on young dinosaurs.

  11. Animals

    Tool use comes naturally to crows

    Certain crows appear to be born with an instinct to make and use tools.

  12. Earth

    Wave of destruction

    The recent Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the most deadly and destructive natural disasters in modern times.