About Jenny @jennymarder
Jenny Marder is digital managing editor for the PBS NewsHour
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Science May 15
Teenage girl’s 13,000-year-old wisdom tooth sheds light on early Native American originsThe skeletal remains of a 13,000-year-old teenage girl pulled from an underwater cave below Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula provides fossil evidence for a persistent, but mostly resolved question on the descendants of early Americans.
Nation May 09
Three takes on disciplining your child, from toddler to teenWe turned to three experts with different backgrounds and asked them how they would deal with a variety of real-world scenarios.
Science May 07
As species decline, so do the scientists who name themQuentin Wheeler’s career can be traced back to a fascination with pond scum. Now president of SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Wheeler was 8 when he first peered through a microscope and saw the single-celled organisms known as…
Science Mar 26
Inside the box that might hold the answers to the missing jetMany of the answers to what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to veer off its flight path and vanish are contained in an unpressurized compartment in the tail of the missing airplane. With the search still ongoing, we wanted to…
Science Mar 20
A gas cloud collides with the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and we get to watchThe landscape in Chile’s Atacama desert is Martian-like: dry, barren and flanked by volcanoes, and its high altitude and unpolluted skies make it a prime spot for stargazing. It was there, after a full night of such observation — and…
Science Mar 12
Why is my baby’s poop this color?I’d like to say that our conversations in the early weeks of parenthood focused on how to contribute most effectively to the college fund, establish healthy sleep habits and encourage muscle-building activities like tummy time. They didn’t. They were about…
World Nov 30
Political activist arrested in EgyptLate Thursday, a prominent Egyptian political activist, Alaa Abd El Fattah, was arrested in his home in Cairo. Alaa Abd El Fattah at his home in Cairo, 2007. Credit: NOW on PBS Abd El Fattah's wife, Manal Hassan, told the…
Science Nov 06
Neuroscience may offer hope to millions robbed of silence by tinnitusChronic tinnitus affects millions of Americans, and is the most widely reported disability among veterans. New research reveals the roots of the disease lie deep within the brain, and experimental therapies are providing hope for a cure.
Science Sep 27
U.N. report declares climate change is here to stay, and it’s our faultProtesters in Stockholm demand political action on climate change as the United Nations panel released its latest assessment on Friday. Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images. On Friday, a group of sleep-deprived climate scientists in Stockholm revealed highlights from the latest…
Science Jul 09
The day ‘dog vomit’ slime mold invaded my front yardSlime mold thrives in the presence of water, shade and dead, decaying leaves. Photo by Emily Johnson. About a week ago, we noticed an intruder in our front yard -- a vivid yellow, blob-like substance that appeared to be…
