This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.
Archaea packages DNA around histones in a similar way to eukaryotes, suggesting that fitting a large genome into a small space was not the original role of chromatin.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
Only two weeks left to participate in The Scientist’s 2013 survey for best place to work in the life sciences.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
Researcher salaries continue to buck the trend of the millennium’s first decade, remaining flat or even declining across most life science disciplines.
Check out the breakdown of this year's Salary Survey data, including how compensation differs between sex, sector, and state.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.