The neurophysiologist who earned a Nobel Prize for discovering nerve growth factor has passed away at age 103.
The neurophysiologist who earned a Nobel Prize for discovering nerve growth factor has passed away at age 103.
In the final chapter of his book on the origins of vertebrate sex, author and paleontologist John Long pays homage to the humble placoderm, which got the erotic ball rolling.
Life's Ratchet, The Annotated and Illustrated Double Helix, The Fractalist and Hallucinations
| January 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the January 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Researchers learn to predict visual imagery in dreams based on functional MRI scans of brain activity during sleep.
A microfluidic device scans individual C. elegans for abnormal traits and sorts wild-type animals from mutants.
Unlike epithelial cells, neurons respond to herpes infection through autophagy, rather than by releasing inflammatory factors.
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, NeuroVigil, Age: 33
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.
How photosynthetic organisms get taken up, passed around, and discarded throughout the eukaryotic domain