Emily Sohn

All Stories by Emily Sohn

  1. Health & Medicine

    The essence of celery

    Tasteless compounds in celery give the vegetable essential flavoring powers.

  2. Health & Medicine

    Healing honey

    Cough medicines don't work and they can have unpleasant side effects. Doctors are starting to recommend honey instead.

  3. Animals

    The secret lives of grizzlies

    By studying grizzlies in captivity, scientists are gaining insights into how bears—and their hearts—tick.

  4. Health & Medicine

    Heart revival

    Scientists have found a way to transform a rat's dead heart into a living one.

  5. Physics

    Powering ball lightning

    A new study might help explain what fuels bouncing balls of fire that occasionally form in nature.

  6. Health & Medicine

    Babies prove sound learners

    Scientists are gaining new insights into why babies are so good at learning languages.

  7. Physics

    Diamond glow

    Rare diamonds that glow in the dark may help scientists distinguish real gems from fake ones.

  8. Health & Medicine

    Memory by hypnosis

    Scientists are using hypnosis to better understand how the brain remembers—or doesn't.

  9. Health & Medicine

    Sweeeet! The skinny on sugar substitutes

    Millions of people use artificial sweeteners, but are they safe?

  10. Earth

    Arctic melt

    There is less ice than ever recorded in the Arctic Ocean, and scientists are concerned.

  11. Animals

    Thieves of a feather

    Birds that steal might be the smartest birds in the flock.

  12. Space

    Average galaxies

    Small, faint, and sluggish, a newly discovered collection of galaxies is helping explain how larger galaxies came to be.

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