FAYE FLAMhas been covering science for The Philadelphia Inquirersince 1995. In June 2005, she started writing Carnal Knowledge, a weekly column about the science of sex. She has also written for New Scientist, Science, and The Economist, and her search for a good science story has taken her everywhere from the South Pole to Greenland to NASAs zero-g plane. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology, Flam was recently a Knight- Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.