December 2012's selection of notable quotes
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
A Michigan University clinical researcher allegedly supplied a fund manager with information about drug trial results that the fund used to rake in more than $270 million.
The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
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.
From education to space, science fared well at the polls on Tuesday.
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.
A New York City climate change brain trust warned of severe damage to the city that bears a striking resemblance to the chaos recently wrought by Hurricane Sandy.
Genes from fungi, bacteria, and viruses may have helped mosses and other plants to colonize the land.