Jennie Walters

Jennie Walters is a journalist for the Health Section.

Role: Journalist, Health
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"Sweet nectar for me", says the sick bumblebee

Several animals reach inside Mother Nature's medicine cabinet when they get sick. Chimps with parasitic worms have been...

The Hunt is On: Scientists Track Parasitic Diseases with Satellite Data

Mosquitos droning lazily in the Solomon Islands spell danger for households without mosquito netting or insecticides to...

How to Unboil an Egg ... Literally

When scientists unboiled an egg in the lab, they were not trying to start a cooking trend. They were after better ways to...

Worms, Neurons, and What Scientists are Learning about Behavior Variability

The human body has a mind-boggling amount of neurons. Nearly 100 billion neurons fire messages across almost 100 trillion...

Follow the leader: How cells 'talk' to each other to heal wounds

Â Slicing a finger with a paring knife stings, but everyone knows the cut will slowly heal until a new layer of skin...

Here's Why Scientists Tallied Plastic Waste in the Ocean

Lots of plastic ends up in the ocean. Discarded soda bottles and food wrappers blow into the water from the beach....

From Scorpion Toxins to Drug Discovery

When a scorpion stings someone, its toxins attack specific regions in the human body, interrupting electric signals to the...

Fructose diets more harmful than sugary ones

Â It's hard to escape sugar. It's not just about resisting junk food. Added sugars, like high fructose corn syrup, get...

Underwater Drones Make the Quest to Map Ice Algae Easier

The metallic underwater drone starkly contrasted Antarctica's blue sky, blue ice. Stretching 2.5 meters long, its sleek...