Richard Preston

As the epidemic widens, the virus is mutating. Geneticists are racing to keep up. Richard Preston reports.

Can the trees of the Great Smoky Mountains be saved?

From 1999: Richard Preston on how smallpox, an eradicated disease that now exists only in laboratories, became a bioterrorist threat.

Richard Preston reports on the emergence of the Ebola Reston virus in Central Africa, and its sudden spread to the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Richard Preston profiles Gregory and David Chudnovsky, mathematician brothers who built a supercomputer out of mail-order parts in order to calculate pi.

Mentioned a number of times in REPORTER AT LARGE about planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, and his wife, Carolyn, who works with him. One evening, in …