The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
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.
| 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?
Using laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to automate and streamline laboratory tasks: three case studies
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
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012