Reassurances from the chap in charge of government spending have not assuaged researchers’ concerns that Britain’s science budgets will be cut.
Reassurances from the chap in charge of government spending have not assuaged researchers’ concerns that Britain’s science budgets will be cut.
Following criticism of a National Cancer Institute communications office budget, biologists defend the spending.
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.
Highways and byways are among the man-made environmental alterations driving the evolution of animals on contemporary timescales, with implications for ecology.
Raising one evolutionary question after another, Brandon Gaut has harvested a crop of novel findings about how plant genomes evolve.
Turning cell phones into basic research tools can improve health care in the developing world.
Researchers use DNA from ancient tooth tartar to chart changes in the bacterial communities that have lived in human mouths for 8,000 years.
Yale University evolutionary biologist Steven Brady studies the evolutionary impacts of roads on the amphibians.
As new infections surface and spread, science meets the challenges with ingenuity and adaptation.
Despite cicadas’ high profile, scientists still don’t fully understand when and why they decide it is time to mate.