July 2011's selection of notable quotes
When European explorers and fishermen began to frequent Canada’s shores in the 16th century, they brought with them a plethora of tools and trinkets, including knives, axes, kettles, and blankets. The region’s indigenous people traded the Europeans f
Today is your last chance to participate in our 2011 survey of life science salaries.
Much of Charles Darwin’s personal library–both his books and what he wrote within them--is now available online.
Scientists invent a method to control the timing and duration of sleep in fruit flies and find that snoozing helps form long-term memories
Researchers seeking a link between vision problems and the dangerous physiological effects of hypoxia in mountain climbers are taking their work to new heights.
Researchers are using real-world methods to study traumatic brain injuries in a comic book
When mice are held in isolation, stem cells in the hippocampus make more of themselves and wait for better times
The Scientist covered some of the events that made this year's festival memorable