Selected stories
Hybrid breeding may revolutionize potato farming with varieties resistant to disease and drought. 
GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future. (With Jon Cohen) 
Chronic mountain sickness is rampant in a Peruvian town at 5100 meters above sea level. 
When volunteering in a clinical study means choosing between science and personal safety. 
Three years after COVID-19 erupted, there’s still confusion about which Chinese team first made public a genome of the pandemic coronavirus. 
A cheap antibiotic treatment might wipe yaws, a forgotten disease, off the face of the planet. 
Whistleblowers cite eyewitness reports, data anomalies, and outsize effects in studies, but researchers deny wrongdoing. 
A collage meant to dispel doubts about a study of lionfish behavior only raised more suspicions. 
Accusations of research fraud roil a tight-knit community of ecologists. 
A scientist blew the whistle on a prominent co-author: “I don’t want to deal with this alone anymore” 
Study on legendary French mountain suggests that EPO does not enhance performance. 
An interactive graphic showing the importance of hot spots of in the transmission of COVID-19. (With Nirja Desai and Kai Kupferschmidt.) (An almost complete list of my stories for Science can be found in that journal’s archives.)