Are you looking for a million-dollar story? How about a dozen tales produced by folks who have been awarded more than a million dollars in the past week? Here's a roundup of award-winning tales with a scientific twist from the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" fellowships ($500,000 each), the National Academies' Communication Awards ($20,000 each), the National Association of Science Writers' Science in Society Journalism Awards ($2,500 each) and the Council for the Advancement of Science Writers' Victor Cohn Medical Science Reporting Prize ($3,000).
MacArthur Fellows:Among this year's 22 fellows are two journalists who have been known to delve into scientific subjects:
Jad Abumrad is co-host and producer of Radiolab, a nationally syndicated public radio program that focuses on the intersection of science and society. His co-host is another well-known science journalist, Robert Krulwich. "The structure of Radiolab episodes often mimics the scientific process...
