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.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Old koala pelts from museum collections are helping researchers to learn more about the retroviral invasion that may be endangering the Australian marsupial.
Using laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to automate and streamline laboratory tasks: three case studies
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012
Fungi in 100 million year-old seafloor sediments could possess novel antibiotics.
Two species of songbirds pack their nests with scavenged cigarette butts that repel irksome parasites.
The National Institutes of Health reveals a controversial plan to regulate the funding of H5N1 research.
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.