Pigeons may use ultra-low-frequency sounds to navigate—a strategy that could steer them off course in the face of infrasonic disturbances, such as sonic booms.
Pigeons may use ultra-low-frequency sounds to navigate—a strategy that could steer them off course in the face of infrasonic disturbances, such as sonic booms.
In Chapter 3, “Tamping the Simian Urge,” author Travis Rayne Pickering contrasts the brute physicality of predatory chimpanzees with the headier hunting style employed by humans.
Protected areas help to conserve imperiled tropical forests, but many are struggling to sustain their resident species.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
Advances in genomics and cancer biology will alter the design of human cancer studies.
Leopold, The Drunken Botanist, Beautiful Whale, and Between Man and Beast
A tactic designed to nab repeat offenders also pinpoints the source of infectious diseases and invasive species.
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Meet some of the people featured in the April 2013 issue of The Scientist.
A decade into the age of genomics, science is generating a flood of data that will help in the quest to eradicate the disease.
Histone acetylation levels keep intracellular pH in check.