Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Researchers are working to understand how often-colorless biological nanostructures give rise to some of the most spectacular technicolor displays in nature.
Why scientists are so near and yet so far from being able to cryopreserve organs
Affordable diagnostic tests tackle the world’s most pressing health problems.
Scientists studying the Arctic Ocean aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker discover one of the largest phytoplankton blooms ever recorded—beneath sea ice.
Patterns of cell death aid in the formation of beneficial wrinkles during the development of bacterial biofilms.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.
Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
Scientists set up a stakeout to track the movements of microbes around a new hospital.
| January 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the January 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.