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Business News > Mint Authors > Jo Craven Mcginty

Jo Craven Mcginty

ARTICLES BY JO CRAVEN MCGINTY

One passenger miraculously survived an Air India Boeing 787 crash, defying odds in aviation's worst disasters.

How does one person survive a plane crash?

4 min read . 13 Jun 2025

The wreckage of Northwest Flight 255, which crashed after takeoff from Detroit in 1987. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

How do people survive plane crashes that kill nearly everyone else?

6 min read . 06 Jan 2025

The Elemind device. Photograph by Hannah Whitaker for WSJ

New wearable devices target the brain to bring better sleep

6 min read . 25 Oct 2024

(Sirichai Puangsuwan/Shutterstock)

Some patients who appear unconscious know what’s going on

4 min read . 15 Aug 2024

For now, the researchers’ algorithm is tuned to assess the contents of a standard US tablespoon. Tonje Thilesen for WSJ

AI wants to count your calories

4 min read . 12 Aug 2024

Jeffrey Keefer followed the gestures of a research assistant in a pre-op session. (WSJ)

Inside the operating room: Doctors test a revolutionary brain-computer implant

9 min read . 22 Mar 2024

Musk tweeted late Monday that Neuralink had implanted its brain chip in a human for the first time. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo (REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo)

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Wants to Make ‘The Matrix’ a Reality. It Has a Lot to Prove First.

4 min read . 31 Jan 2024

If a bulb no longer seems sufficiently bright, it might be time to replace it. (Photo: iStock)

Why LED bulbs don’t always live up to the hype about their life spans

4 min read . 03 Oct 2021

A man gets inoculated with a dose of the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine (AFP)

Some vaccines last a lifetime. Here’s why covid-19 shots don’t

4 min read . 11 Sept 2021

Other early human challenge studies, including some involving children and babies, were eventually judged immoral. (AP)

Unlike clinical trials, new Covid-19 study needed only a few volunteers

3 min read . 28 Aug 2021

Police officers and workers remove a crashed car (REUTERS)

Car-crash death rate surged in 2020

3 min read . 09 Jan 2021

The process takes up to a year, costs $725 and requires applicants to pass a citizenship test, among other hurdles. ( iStockphoto)

More green card holders are becoming US citizens

4 min read . 14 Nov 2020

Mr. Johnson was born in New York when his British parents worked there but only decided to relinquish his citizenship in 2016 (AP)

More Americans Are Renouncing Their Citizenship

5 min read . 18 Oct 2020

This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., in 2020, shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles. (AP)

Group most likely to get covid-19 is least likely to die from it

4 min read . 10 Oct 2020