Maria Konnikova says the field of psychology has something to learn from great works of fiction.
Maria Konnikova says the field of psychology has something to learn from great works of fiction.
An international survey suggests that labs may not be safe as researchers think.
Carl Woese, the discoverer of the third domain of life, has passed away at age 84.
There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.
Patterns of cell death aid in the formation of beneficial wrinkles during the development of bacterial biofilms.
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
Scientists set up a stakeout to track the movements of microbes around a new hospital.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
The rise of copulation as a vertebrate reproductive strategy may have driven crucial evolutionary change and explosive species radiation.