by Darlene Cavalier | Mar 4, 2010 | News, Writings
Here’s a piece I wrote for Discover Magazine.com yesterday about a pharmaceutical ice cream–called ReCharge–New Zealand is producing to counter side effects of chemotherapy. I learned about this in The Scientist. The most important ingredient:...
by Darlene Cavalier | Feb 24, 2010 | Blog, Photo Gallery, Science Education, Tshirt
Really doesn’t have much to do with the dino sculpture my son created, next to the THANGĀ on our family’s fireplace matel. But I bet Carl Zimmer has a guess. I recall the time I brought this heavy THANG into HIS office at Discover. Back when HE had a...
by Darlene Cavalier | Jan 28, 2010 | Blog, Events
I’m here in Pittsburgh, PA, at Carnegie Mellon University where Discover Magazine, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, is producing a panel discussion on the future of robotics! The event takes place tonight and highlights will be featured in a...
by Darlene Cavalier | Dec 30, 2009 | Writings
Discover Magazine’s Top 100 Stories of 2009 #69: Science Sets Its Eyes on the Prize Big money awaits innovators who can build rockets, sequence genomes, predict people’s movie preferences, harvest energy from the tides, or explore the Moon. by Darlene...