
Bird song could hold clues for human disorders
By Caroline Catherman Medill Reports Very few animals learn speech in a way that comes close to the human method. The repertoire of grunts, barks,

By Caroline Catherman Medill Reports Very few animals learn speech in a way that comes close to the human method. The repertoire of grunts, barks,

By Shivani Majmudar Medill Reports BALTIMORE, Md.– Pediatric ophthalmologist Dr. Megan Collins took her clinic on “house calls” for the first time nearly seven years

By Marisa Sloan Medill Reports EDGEWATER, Md. — The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center’s Environmental Archaeology Laboratory is easy to miss, hidden within a basement on

By Marisa Sloan Medill Reports A forest unlike any other hides among the Chesapeake Bay’s winding back roads. Viewed from above, it resembles a patchwork

By Erin Warwood Medill Reports When a neighbor’s tobacco smoke keeps coming into your space, you may wonder what you can do to stop it

By Marisa Sloan Medill Reports Although 3-year-old Esther Peterson was born with profound hearing loss in both ears, she is well on her way to

Navajo geneticist Krystal Tsosie thought she would target her career toward cancer biology. She studied nano- and microparticle research but soon faced a dilemma in

By Natalie Eilbert Medill Reports From above, the roads in Walnut, Kansas, intersect into the green and gray geometry typical of so many rural towns