Below are some miscellaneous science and technology stories about the cutting edges of various things.
ASK
Where’s My Invisibility Cloak?
For a kids’ science magazine, my husband (a physicist) and I collaborated on a story about current technology relating to invisibility cloaks. (Spoiler: not feasible at the moment.)
DePaul Magazine
Scientists use fish–in the wild, in aquaria, and in fossil form–to study evolution.
Profile of a researcher focusing on the newly emerging superbug S. maltophilia.
Imagine (University of Chicago Medicine)
A five-year-old suffers 60 to 100 seizures a day until the implantation of a vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) gives him back his life.
New Scientist
Childhood Protein Rescues Adult Teeth
I wrote this story when I was living in Sweden in the 1990s, about a start-up in a nearby city. The company was bought up by a Swiss restorative dentistry company, and the protein is still around with its original brand name.
Small Times
When lives are at stake, the batteries better work
Profile of a company that makes tiny batteries for medical implants
Profile of a company working on an implantable retina chip to help the blind see.