Dot Earth Blog: A Deeper Look at a Study Finding High Leak Rates From Gas Drilling

Updated below with Skype chat with the study lead author, 10:07 p.m. |Most efforts to slow the natural gas drilling boom in the United States have focused on questions about the environmental impacts of the process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking,...

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Well: The Limits of ‘No Pain, No Gain’

Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Exercise makes us tired. A new study helps to elucidate why and also suggests that while it is possible to push through fatigue to reach new levels of physical performance, it is not necessarily...

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The Well Column: The Lure of Forbidden Food

The Well Column Tara Parker-Pope on living well. How hard will your child work for food? In an experiment, researchers at Pennsylvania State University gave preschool children the opportunity to "work" for a food reward. All the child had to...

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Well: An Easier Way to Delay Cutting the Cord

Doctors in the delivery room are increasingly urged to hold off cutting the umbilical cord of a newborn. Delayed clamping, as it's called, allows blood to continue flowing from the placenta, improving iron stores in the baby. But the practice has been...

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Dot Earth Blog: Nations’ Handling of New Climate Report Presages Divisions in Treaty Effort

Justin Gillis's news story from Berlin on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the one on the world's options for limiting global warming — tells you all you need to know about the familiar contents. The chart of trending...

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Dot Earth Blog: My TEDx Talk: We Are Perfect, With a Hefty Asterisk

I just gave a talk at TEDx Portland — a daylong event focused on various interpretations of the word "perfect." I was hardly perfect, but hopefully conveyed my core conclusion: that in our variegation and imperfection, we humans — with motivation and...

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Well: Look for Cancer, and Find It

Mammography has become a fighting word in recent years, with some researchers questioning its value and others staunchly defending it. One especially disturbing criticism is that screening mammography may lead to "overtreatment," in which some women...

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Well: Inside the Mind of a Child With Autism

Therapists who specialize in autism often use a child's own interests, toys or obsessions as a way to connect, and sometimes to reward effort and progress on social skills. The more eye contact a child makes, for example, the more play time he or she...

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Ask Well: Ankle Replacements

Q I understand that because of the number of bones and complexity of the other interacting parts, ankles aren't easy to repair back to their original condition, but how about just a ball socket replacement? A "We can and do" replace...

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Well: Think Like a Doctor: Running in Circles Solved!

Think Like a Doctor Solve a medical mystery with Dr. Lisa Sanders. On Thursday, we challenged Well readers to solve the mystery of a 23-year-old man with episodes of aggressive, manic behavior that couldn't be controlled. Nearly 1,000 readers...

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Well: Turning Up the Heat on Fruit

Fruit compotes make great compromise desserts; they're sweet, but not as sweet as sorbets, and like sorbets they don't require flour, butter or pastry skills. I didn't develop any kind of knack for pastry until I began collaborating with pastry chefs...

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