The Stubborn Scientist Who Unraveled A Mystery of the Night
Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
Take Two and Call Me in the Morning
Once we didn’t know how aspirin works; now we know that it does a lot more than ease pain and inflammation
The “Indomitable” MRI
Raymond Damadian’s medical imaging machine set off a revolution but not without controversy
You Will Feel No Pain
Doctors and patients swear hypnosis works, but after years of research we still don’t know how
The Quality of Mercy
At a small hospital in Vermont, nurses practice medicine as an art, marshaling compassion and skill in equal measure
How a Weed Once Scorned Became the Flower of the Hour
The gaudy sunflower is the ornament of the Nineties, turning up everywhere and on everything, including baseball players’ faces
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