Scientists are stumped as to why hundreds of starved pups have been washing up on the California shore.
Scientists are stumped as to why hundreds of starved pups have been washing up on the California shore.
Professor, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology. Age: 40
Microbes affect weight loss; dozens of cancer-linked genes identified; a climate change scientists speaks out about personal attacks; isolation among elderly linked to death
Microbial changes in the gut contribute to a patient’s ability to slim down after gastric bypass surgery.
Attacks on my work aimed at undermining climate change science have turned me into a public figure. I have come to embrace that role.
Rising temperatures allow one mountain ant to climb higher, displacing a related species and possibly upsetting plant ecology.
Venom-based drugs for pain; microbes in the deep ocean; altruistic, suicidal bacteria; a call for open access; clinical sequencing; the newest genomes
Researchers show that a bacterium’s self-sacrifice can benefit its community, even when the members are not strongly related.
Newly constructed ramps will expand the habitat available to a colony of water voles in London, and similar ramps elsewhere could encourage isolated populations to mix.
Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface.