technology, tools

There is only one week remaining to submit your new product to vie for a coveted spot in The Scientist’s 2022 competition.

Scientists see great value in catchy acronyms, so they get creative when it comes to naming new tools and techniques.

A single-cell map of C. elegans’s transcriptome during development finds cell lineages that start out genetically different and end up as cells of similar function and genetic profile.

Researchers are developing a variety of approaches for clearing neural tissue to get a better view of the brain’s circuitry.

Submit your new product by the end of the day Monday to have a chance at being selected for a coveted spot in The Scientist's 2019 competition.

Enter your new product to have a chance at being selected for a coveted spot in The Scientist’s 2019 contest.

Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.

Three techniques capture data on numerous protein interactions in plants, mice, and human cells.

Biology happens on many levels, from ecosystems to electron transport chains. These tools may help spur discoveries at all of life's scales.

The winner of the 2018 Nikon Small World in Motion video competition shows the development of sensory neurons in a zebrafish embryo.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project has released data on 14 vertebrate species, but the goal is to sequence all 66,000.

There is less than one week left to submit your product for a coveted spot in The Scientist’s 2018 competition.

You only have a couple of days left to submit a product in The Scientist's Top 10 Innovation competition. Your product can't win if it doesn't get in!

These runners up to the Top 10 Innovations of 2016 caught our judges' attention.

Piecing together scraps of DNA from a 400,000-year-old hominin femur

Revolutionary new methods for extracting, purifying, and sequencing ever-more-ancient DNA have opened an unprecedented window into the history of life on Earth.

Researchers unearth 3.3 million-year-old stone flakes in Kenya, forcing a reimagining of the emergence of such technologies in the ancestors of humans.

Borrowing techniques from nail and hair salons, researchers have devised a method to tag small, previously untrackable sea turtles.

Beauty salon technologies help researchers tag and follow young sea turtles like never before.