JSTOR, the online archive of scholarly journal articles, is offering free but limited access to its database.
JSTOR, the online archive of scholarly journal articles, is offering free but limited access to its database.
The UK’s universities minister announces a plan for a new science and tech university funded entirely by non-government dollars.
| January 3, 2012
In Chapter 8, "Pirates at the Picnic," author Marlene Zuk considers the wisdom of describing the behavior of ants in human terms
A laboratory head faces criminal charges after one of his researchers died in a lab fire in 2008.
Our Dying Planet, Here Be Dragons, Rat Island, Harnessed
Should we rethink the parallel drawn between “slave-making” ants and human slavery, and other such oversimplifications of animal behavior?
Genotyping could answer a centuries-old mystery about a vanished group of British settlers.
The Scientist recounts the year’s top science prize winners and top-notch scientists that passed away.