American Scientist

10. Modeling Digestive Diseases

by Imani Vincent

The intestine is not a privileged organ in the body: We can experience abdominal pain during exercise, for instance, because the body will shunt blood from the intestine to the heart, brain, and bigger muscles. Even the most fit athletes can experience intense cramps for this reason, because the body is prioritizing other organs in need.

(From the Staff – February 23, 2023)

9. How to Speed Up Virus Detection

by Natalie Nold

New imaging methods for measuring these pathogens in lab cultures could accelerate vaccine research and pandemic responses.

(Macroscope – May 4, 2023)

8. How Trustworthy is Memory?

by The Editors

Humans tend to reimagine the past as well as misremember experiences. The connection between these cognitive processes informs our understanding of memory.

(From the Staff – October 24, 2023)

7. Placing Women Astrophysicists at the Center

by Jarita Holbrook

Physicist Shohini Ghose explores the contributions of women scientists in physics and astronomy in her new book Her Space, Her Time.

(Science Culture – October 25, 2023)

6. Antimicrobial Resistance Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

by Kristen Giesbrecht

Drug-defying bugs create new challenges for global health.

(From the Staff – February 2, 2023)

5. Arsenic and PFAS found in Guatemala City’s Public Water

by Kirsten Giesbrecht

Residents in the capital collaborated with public health scientists to detect heavy metals and forever chemicals in their tap water, in the first study of its kind in Central America.

(From the Staff – March 15, 2023)

4. Building Artificial Leaves for Renewable Energy Storage

by Imani Vincent

Inspiration from photosynthesis could lead to technology that converts solar power directly to liquid fuels.

(From the Staff – March 27, 2023)

3. Advances in Personalized Medicine

by Raeanne Geffert

Researchers and clinicians have many molecular tools for assessing a patient’s individual response to a drug. What is delaying the implementation of personalized medicine?

(Macroscope – March 21, 2023)

2. Rethinking Menstrual Norms

by Katie L. Burke

When an issue arises with a person’s menstrual health, it is often framed as an individual problem. Maybe one’s period is early or late, short or long, heavy or light, especially painful, or somehow “abnormal.”

(From the Staff – June 21, 2023)

1. Obesity’s Lasting Effect on Brain Signals

by Donovan Garner

When Mireille Serlie has clinic hours in her role as an endocrinologist, she sees patients with obesity who tell her that they know they have eaten a big meal, but they don’t have any feeling of being full. Serlie, who has joint appointments at Amsterdam University Medical Center and Yale University School of Medicine, has taken that observation into her research work on obesity.

(From the Staff – August 14, 2023)