A new DNA assay developed by forensic scientists helps archaeologists reconstruct eye and hair color from old teeth and bones.
A new DNA assay developed by forensic scientists helps archaeologists reconstruct eye and hair color from old teeth and bones.
Children watching clips of Sesame Street inside fMRI scanners yield unprecedented insights into the functioning of their brains.
In Chapter 4, “Darwin’s Barnacles, Agassiz’s Jellyfish,” author Christoph Irmscher describes his subject’s obsession with marine organisms.
Scientists create biocompatible, self-luminescing nanoparticles for in vivo imaging.
The Bonobo and the Atheist, The Philadelphia Chromosome, Lone Survivors, and Paleofantasy
| May 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the May 2013 issue of The Scientist.
One, two, three, four . . . . Counting colonies and plaques can be tedious, but tools exist to streamline the process.
Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s unheralded codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, found inspiration in the specimens he collected on his travels.
Research Associate, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Age: 27
After numerous high-profile safety scares, clinicians and regulators push to fix critical weaknesses in the FDA’s monitoring system for approved drugs.