Bees, sheep, and chimps are just a few of the animals known to self-medicate. Can they teach us about maintaining our own health?
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Bees, sheep, and chimps are just a few of the animals known to self-medicate. Can they teach us about maintaining our own health?
Biomedical researchers would benefit from emulating the logically rigorous reasoning of the late Alan Turing, British mathematician, computer scientist, and master cryptographer.
Remote sensing helps control an invasive giant weed that threatens ecosystems and border security.
Music videos could be helpful tools for science communication and education, but anti- and pseudoscience activists are also using this medium to spread their views.
Will the recently launched Reproducibility Initiative succeed in cleaning up research and reducing retractions?
Security concerns during the Cold War may have led to the generation of misinformation on the physiological effects of microwave radiation from mobile phones.
Many vaccines are on the market for various serogroups of meningococcal disease, but a solution to provide broad protection against MenB remains elusive.
Researchers show that DNA supercoils are dynamic structures that can “hop” long distances, a phenomenon that could affect gene regulation.
A phylogenetic study of traditional plant remedies could aid drug development.
Professional dialogue between scientists and non-scientists is not easy, but when successful, it can create powerful insights and relationships.