Maggie Koerth-Baker

Can patients really improve their chances of survival by staying upbeat and happy?

Taste and smell are more complicated than you might think. Working together, and alone, these senses can have big impacts on everything from dementia and depression, to obesity and metabolism.

New ways to diagnose and treat traumatic brain injury, which is easily overlooked.

An influx of mosquitoes is threatening the flood-ravaged Midwest, but science has some solutions.

Stem cells, derived from human fat, are improving plastic surgery now. In the future, they'll make it even better.

As salmonella wreaks havoc across the United States, one group of researchers have figured out some of the bacteria's tricks.

The Chinese government may be invading our Internet space. Can the intelligence community prove who's behind recent hacker attacks on Congressional computers?

A bacterium could hold the keys to alternative energy, toxics cleanup and how our bodies work.

Turns out, clothes really do make the man (and the woman), when it comes to feet.

A study found that half of American women who don't want to be pregnant aren't reliably using birth control.

Some research is pointing to stem cells as the entry point for cancer.