Articles by

Elie Dolgin

To climb trees, cicadas look to the shadows

When periodical cicadas surface after years underground, they don’t grope blindly for trees. They head for the...

Digital heart twins can guide a lifesaving procedure

Virtual replicas of individual patients’ hearts have allowed doctors to refine and personalize a lifesaving medical procedure...

Smartwatch data can be used to assess early diabetes risk

The data your smartwatch already collects could soon help flag an early warning sign for type 2...

The Amazon molly — a sex-skipping fish — hacks evolution

The Amazon molly is an evolutionary enigma: an all-female fish that reproduces by cloning itself. Because it...

Wanderlust may be written in our DNA

From ancient nomads to modern job-hoppers, the urge to move may be written partly into our DNA....

Evolution didn’t wait long after the dinosaurs died

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced...

A simple shift in schedule could make cancer immunotherapy work better

The idea that cancer treatment might work better at certain times of day has circulated for decades...

This baby sling turns sunlight into treatment for newborn jaundice

Daniel John slips his arms through the straps of his souped-up baby carrier, settles the harness against...