Contributors
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Oceanographers deployed elephant seals to discover a new source of Antarctic bottom water, cold deep-ocean currents that play a key role in global ocean circulation.
Collective cell migration relies on a directional signal that comes from the moving cluster, rather than from external cues.
Watch the cell transplant experiments in zebrafish that suggest certain embryonic cells rely on intrinsic directional cues for collective migration.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
The black smoky emission is nearly as important as carbon dioxide in driving global warming.
A US federal advisory committee finds that climate change is already impacting the country, and that it’s not about to stop.
This year, US politics was dominated by the run-up to October elections, with science policy issues playing a role here and elsewhere around the world.