Contributors
August 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2012 issue of The Scientist.
August 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Death breeds life in the world’s most diverse and abundant group of animals.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Rather than rely on plant-derived products, biotech companies are engineering bacteria and yeast to produce ingredients for fragrances.
A bacterial protein refolds itself into two dramatically different shapes with distinct roles.
Guppies with experimentally shrunken brains produced more offspring than guppies bred for larger noggins, confirming a long suspected tradeoff of bigger brains.
A new study finds that an Alaskan population of the fish has quickly evolved in response to warming temperatures.
A nuclear war could have profound effects on crops yields around the world, according to a new study.
With persistence and pluck, Leslie Vosshall managed to snatch insect odorant receptors from the jaws of experimental defeat.
A federal appeals court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate air pollution under the Clean Air Act.