Articles by Carolyn Wilke

Kelp in warm, acidified waters develop blistered fronds—and the composition of microbial communities could help explain why, a study suggests.

Algorithms for motion capture help neuroscientists dig into the question of how the brain produces behavior.

Researchers are developing computational approaches to extract information from multiple sets of single-cell sequencing data.

With the help of computer algorithms that excel at pattern recognition, researchers look for meaning in vast pictorial datasets.

The familiar word elicits a twitch of the ears or swish of the tail, suggesting felines can distinguish their names from other words.

Two scientists, who came to the Bethesda campus to give presentations, hold US green cards and had previously visited without incident.

Stony coral tissue loss disease has already affected 80 percent of Florida’s coastal reef system. Now, a huge team of responders is working to slow its spread and prepare for future restoration efforts.

Newly discovered and rather phallic-looking clams dwell at the bottom of the ocean and are some of only a few animals known to eat wood.  

Most people who contracted the disease were unvaccinated and some state legislatures are now considering whether to curtail nonmedical vaccine exemptions.

Of the Hemiptera bugs, milkweed-chomping Oncopeltus fasciatus have hung onto more smell and taste receptors than their liquid-guzzling relatives.

Computational biologist Jinghui Zhang of St. Jude realized scientists could work more efficiently with tools and genomic data shared on the cloud.

Lab-grown stem cells fill in for damaged tissue in the noses of mice.

Mustard gas blistered men’s bodies on the battlefield, but paved the way for cancer-fighting drugs.

Researchers found that allegedly noncoding genetic material carries the instructions for many peptides that may help harness the immune system to fight cancer.

A survey reveals the disease has decimated populations in Central and South America and tropical Australia and contributed to the extinction of 90 species.