[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest non fiction category.] Every evening on the medicine service, patients are handed...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 25, 2012.] A hot topic in the immunology world these days is the hygiene...

I like butterflies and butterflies like salt. In the Amazon Rainforest the butterflies land on me desperate for sodium when...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 22, 1981.] Nearly a year after the conservative Heritage Foundation called for a renewed...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest's fiction category.] There was once a small Martian called K who was...

Being an OB-GYN, I imagine, is a lot like playing center midfield.

[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 23, 2008.] There is an important initiative on the November California ballot that would...

I’ve recently realized, and it’s kind of scary but I am a demographic that is necessary I am from a...

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1973.] Monopoly control and citizen, especially minority, participation are crucial factors in...

It rained the way only Kerala knows how— without hesitation, without edges.

[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 29, 1983.] In question is whether transforming living organisms or creating new ones could...

Once the obligations of an international agreement are broken for the first time, it's easier to continue breaking the agreement...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with polycystic...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] Phoebe, panting hard, let the door slam behind her and...