Breeding plants that can convert more carbon dioxide to food could help feed a growing population.
Breeding plants that can convert more carbon dioxide to food could help feed a growing population.
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Certain immune cells keep adipose tissue in check by helping to define normal and abnormal physiological states.
A hormone called jasmonate mediates plants' responses to touch and can boost defenses against pests.
Can emulating our early human ancestors make us healthier?
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
Autism researchers are testing the ability of whipworm eggs to treat autism in a new clinical trial.
The star of Thanksgiving was domesticated by Mayans 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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.