A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.
A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.
August 1, 2011
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2011 issue of The Scientist.
Fisheries scientist ordered to refuse interviews about research on salmon decline.
Unlike human brains, chimpanzee brains don’t get smaller as they age, suggesting that pronounced neurological decline is a uniquely human byproduct of our oversized brains and extreme longevity.
Journalists should focus more on accurately representing the science of climate change and vaccinations and less on impartiality, a new review finds.
A climate change writer is concerned over possible bias within an IPCC working group that assesses options for combating climate change.
Eleanor Simpson, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a recent Nature paper that probes dopamine's role in helping animals make positive associations to stimuli that herald pleasurable outcomes (such as the handing out of food).