Scientists studying the Arctic Ocean aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker discover one of the largest phytoplankton blooms ever recorded—beneath sea ice.
Scientists studying the Arctic Ocean aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker discover one of the largest phytoplankton blooms ever recorded—beneath sea ice.
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
| January 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the January 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.
How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain
Comparing gene transcripts from different species reveals surprising splicing diversity.
Just 3 days after five people involved in the polio vaccine effort in Pakistan were shot by unidentified assailants, three more are killed.