There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.
There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.
Scientists studying the Arctic Ocean aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker discover one of the largest phytoplankton blooms ever recorded—beneath sea ice.
Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
| 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.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, NeuroVigil, Age: 33
Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.