July 2012's selection of notable quotes
The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.
The second of the two controversial bird flu papers is published in Science, revealing that just five mutations can render the virus transmissible between ferrets.
Freezer malfunction damages one third of the world’s largest collection of brains from autism patients.
Minnows living in water with psychoactive pharmaceuticals have autism-like gene expression profiles, pointing to an environmental trigger for the disorder.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
With the help of a mother, one researcher uncovered a common link between autism and a devastating bone disease.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money.