At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Is printing out your own lab equipment, molecular models, and drug compounds the wave of the future?
Japanese researchers unravel the mystery of miracle fruit.
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Dried plant specimens reveal the origin of an insect pest that has spread throughout Europe.
New types of biological filaments are turning up in yeast, fly, bacterial cells and in rat neurons, and they may yield clues to how the cytoskeleton evolved from metabolically active enzymes.
Ivan Martin talks about the promise of using cell-based therapies to regenerate joint cartilage.
I the dark Arctic shallows one research finds heterotrophic marine bacteria doing a surprising amount of carbon fixing.
“This is my trophy,” says biologist Michael Edidin, walking across his office at Johns Hopkins University to pick up two oversized clock hands, once part of the stately clock tower that still stands on the Baltimore campus. In his right-hand pocket i
When European explorers and fishermen began to frequent Canada’s shores in the 16th century, they brought with them a plethora of tools and trinkets, including knives, axes, kettles, and blankets. The region’s indigenous people traded the Europeans f