A marine scientist ponders how academics could have handled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill better.
A marine scientist ponders how academics could have handled the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill better.
A new study shows that grooming by ants promotes colony-wide resistance to fungal infections by transferring small amounts of pathogen to nestmates.
March 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Governmental red tape blocks scientists from discussing their research with journalists, according to an open letter.
Infection by GFP-encoding viruses enables quick, easy detection of tuberculosis in patient samples.
Only a quarter of Clostridium difficile infections in one hospital system were traced to contact with a symptomatic patient.
While biotechnology has met with mixed public reactions, to date nanotechnology seems to invoke much less public concern.
The US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity explains why it recommended redacting the details of studies reporting on a highly transmissible H5N1 strain.
An attempt to regrow the infamous GFAJ-1 bacteria, reported to incorporate arsenic into its DNA backbone, has failed.