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The 2013 Salary Survey Is Here

By | March 1, 2013

The Scientist's annual salary survey goes international for the first time.

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Science on Celluloid

By | February 28, 2013

Scientist? Filmmaker? Alexis Gambis welcomes both labels.

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Natural STD Protection for Women?

By | February 28, 2013

An interferon found in the female reproductive tract may help guard against sexually transmitted diseases such as herpes.

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Playing for Words

By | February 28, 2013

Children with dyslexia have an easier time learning to read after playing action video games that don’t incorporate reading.

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A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Rats

By | February 28, 2013

Sensory and motor information can be transferred directly between the brains of rats, but some scientists doubt the proclaimed implication of an “organic computer.”

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Tadpoles See with Extra Eyes

By | February 27, 2013

Blind tadpoles regain vision when new eyes are grafted onto their tails. 

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What Ever Happened to Douglas Prasher?

By | February 26, 2013

The first researcher to clone the gene for green fluorescent protein, but who was passed over for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is back in academic science.

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Neurons Live Longer in New Brains

By | February 25, 2013

Transplanting mouse neurons into rats allows the neurons to survive twice as long as they would in mice.

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Opinion: Scientific Peer Review in Crisis

By | February 25, 2013

The case of the Danish Cohort

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Behavior Brief

By | February 25, 2013

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

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