Life scientists are increasingly posting manuscripts to the preprint server, joining the ranks of thousands of physicists.
Life scientists are increasingly posting manuscripts to the preprint server, joining the ranks of thousands of physicists.
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.
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.
Particle physicists and biologists unite to answer one of the most puzzling questions of the universe: Does dark matter exist?
A nuclear war could have profound effects on crops yields around the world, according to a new study.