Investment in brain research should aim at protecting the brains of the future from harmful environmental pollutants.
Investment in brain research should aim at protecting the brains of the future from harmful environmental pollutants.
Support the BRAIN Initiative, but don’t overlook the neurogenomic diagnostics that are already driving breakthroughs in brain and rare neurological disorders.
US universities need to reach across their own borders to retain global scientific preeminence.
The NIH remains a Caucasian-dominated workforce. Why haven’t the agency’s efforts to diversify been successful?
Retrospective carbon dating of human hippocampal cells confirms substantial adult neurogenesis and suggests that the process contributes to brain function.
The recently announced BRAIN Initiative, referred to as the Apollo program for neuroscience, needs more funding and better goals to live up to the hype.
Regular supplies of food for scavenger birds in Spain may not be the most effective conservation strategy, as smaller birds are bullied away.
Take a closer look at some of the statistics generated by The Scientist's Best Place to Work Industry 2013 survey.
Publishers need to be proactive about detecting and deterring copied text.
Scientists working in developing nations who engage in capacity building find it bolsters the lives of locals and their own work.