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Laura Shin
Laura Shin
Contributing Editor, Science
Laura Shin has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon and SolveClimate.com. She is currently a senior editor at LearnVest.com. Previously, she worked at Newsweek, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. She holds degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Laura Shin
In the unlikely event that Laura has a professional or financial relationship with a company she writes about, it will be prominently disclosed.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Rose Eveleth
Rose Eveleth
Contributing Editor, Science
Rose Eveleth is a freelance writer, producer and designer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, OnEarth, Discover, New York Times, Story Collider and Radiolab. She holds degrees from the University of California, San Diego and New York University.
Rose Eveleth
Rose does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
she writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 02-2012
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Brain may get boost from Mediterranean diet
A new study shows a Mediterranean diet could help protect the brain from damage that leads to strokes and memory loss.
February 29, 2012, 5:51 AM PST | By Laura Shin
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Seeing the invisible field: genetic engineering gives yeast the gift of magnetic sight
Right now, there are magnetic fields sweeping all around you. You cannot see them, or feel them, but they are there, moving in and out of everything around you. Some bacteria use metal inside...
February 29, 2012, 5:13 AM PST | By Rose Eveleth
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New laser technology can detect bombs from a distance
As the arms race continues between terrorists and security forces - bomb detection is critical to saving lives. But figuring out what is, and what isn’t a bomb isn’t easy. New laser...
February 28, 2012, 3:07 PM PST | By Rose Eveleth
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With new bandage kit, heal your cut — and save a life
New boxes of bandages from Help Remedies include bone marrow donor registry kits that make it much easier to sign up to be a donor.
February 28, 2012, 4:43 AM PST | By Laura Shin
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Power your phone with your body heat
Imagine if every time your cell phone ran out of power, you could just stick it in your pants pocket for a charge.
February 27, 2012, 5:04 AM PST | By Laura Shin
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Decoding the dunk: measuring the strength of a slam
With the help of MIT’s Media Lab, the NBA has a new net measures just how big that slam dunk really was.
February 27, 2012, 4:46 AM PST | By Rose Eveleth
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New report affirms that colonoscopies do save lives
At a time when the effectiveness of certain cancer screening tests is not holding up to scrutiny, a study shows colonoscopies do cut the colorectal cancer death rate.
February 24, 2012, 5:37 AM PST | By Laura Shin
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New wireless medical device swims through bloodstream
The development means a new class of medical devices could be implanted or injected into the body without bulky batteries or power cables.
February 23, 2012, 5:24 AM PST | By Laura Shin
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By year’s end, Google glasses to stream info to eyeballs
Later this year, Google is expected release glasses that will stream information a few inches away from the wearer’s eyeballs.
February 22, 2012, 4:45 AM PST | By Laura Shin
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Plants generated from 32,000-year-old fruit
The arctic flowers are the oldest ever revived and could help scientists study evolution in real time.
February 21, 2012, 5:46 AM PST | By Laura Shin