Emily Sohn

All Stories by Emily Sohn

  1. Health & Medicine

    A framework for growing bone

    A promising new material could help encourage damaged or broken bones to grow back.

  2. Humans

    Digging for ancient DNA

    Soil has yielded identifiable DNA of animals and plants that lived up to 400,000 years ago.

  3. Health & Medicine

    Remembering Facts and Feelings

    An inner-brain region called the hippocampus may be the root of memory of both experiences and fact.

  4. Space

    A galaxy far, far, far away

    Astronomers have glimpsed some of the most distant galaxies yet found.

  5. Environment

    Cliff snails and rock climbers

    Rock climbers can accidentally wipe out communities of cliff snails.

  6. Fossils

    Dino-dining dinosaurs

    Some dinosaurs may have actually eaten each other.

  7. Fossils

    Fossil fly from Antarctica

    A tiny fly fossil has turned up about 500 kilometers from the South Pole.

  8. Tech

    Eating up foul sewage smells

    Bacteria can break down the chemical responsible for sewage's rotten-egg smell.

  9. Earth

    Quick quake alerts

    A system of detectors could provide a few seconds warning that an earthquake is coming.

  10. Earth

    Riding to Earth’s core

    A scientist has thought up a way to send a probe deep into Earth.

  11. Animals

    Childhood chills give bees six left feet

    If the bees are raised in cold temperatures, their dancing skills seem to go down the drain.

  12. Animals

    Shoot the poop

    Some caterpillars get rid of their waste with ballistic force.