Articles by Peter Gwynne
Yeast experiment offers fresh insights on the nature of natural selection.
An approach based on simple scientific ideas reveals how gamblers can win.
Experiment provides first step toward using nanoparticles to manufacture cancer-fighting drugs.
New technologies may help reduce supersonic jet takeoff noise.
Technical advances have influenced almost every Olympic sport.
Governments and manufacturers seek to avoid using enriched uranium.
A novel technology increases the global appeal of New England lobsters.
The strategies of two teams engaged in the early 20th-century race to the pole shape their modern-day legacies.
Researchers deconstruct the physics of a revered centuries-old process: writing with a fountain pen.
A 'heart in a box' could keep donated cardiac organs viable for over eight hours.
Studying lizards' tendons and bones allows researchers to develop seriously sticky 'skin.'