Robert Frederick

How might we address structural/slow violence before it does harm, but before we need a hero?

Jamestown's dealings with billion-dollar developer D.R. Horton are happening without public records.

Viral surveillance is crucial to detecting isolated disease outbreaks and preventing them from growing into e…

In his latest book, In a Flight of Starlings, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Giorgio Parisi sets himself a tas…

Reporters covering climate change should combine traditional and solutions journalism approaches to provide m…

To keep public trust, reporters should convey the complexity - and uncertainty - of scientific results

Seeking to better describe the world, researchers are attempting to blend the languages of science and art.

To understand how fuel burns in a diesel engine takes chemistry knowledge and supercomputing muscle.

Despite our intuition that humans are a species distinct from other animals, attempts to define what makes us…

Fundamental to science and art, says Edward Tufte, is “intense seeing,” or seeing without the use of words. W…

After finishing his Ph.D. on glass formation, chemical physicist Patrick Charbonneau thought he'd never study…

Student-initiated projects have the potential to change a lab's focus. But with freedom comes responsibility.

This video introduction to Science's year-end special issue features Andrew Cleland of University of Californ…

This video revisits and enhances our 2 October 2009 video introducing Ardipithecus ramidus -- a 4.4-million-y…

More than a million-years older than "Lucy," Ardipithecus ramidus and the associated fossils provide the most…

Science's year-end special issue video features Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University, George Daley of Harvard …

After more than a decade of U.S. regulations that first prompted and later required testing for children's me…

As in civil society, where there must necessarily be checks and balances on freedom of expression, cells have…

Representative show (Frederick ran the Science podcast 2007-2011). Link goes to downloadable transcript. Audi…

Accompanying Science's year-end special issue, this video features Francis Collins of the NIH, David Altshule…

Scientists at Harvard are giving the ancient art of tattooing a technological makeover. They have invented a …

St. Louis, MO – The head of the Vatican's observatory said yesterday that the fundamentalist Christian view o…

New technology and better oversight may hold the keys to more effective breast cancer detection.

A company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is crying foul. The South Korean government has given an award to a South K…