Contributors
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
| March 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the March 2013 issue of The Scientist.
Uranium dating of coral tools used by the earliest settlers of the South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga offers unprecedented precision in reconstructing their history.
Inducing certain brain patterns extends non-REM sleep in mice.
During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.
Children with dyslexia have an easier time learning to read after playing action video games that don’t incorporate reading.
Blind tadpoles regain vision when new eyes are grafted onto their tails.
Transplanting mouse neurons into rats allows the neurons to survive twice as long as they would in mice.
One gene involved in speech produces more of its protein in the brains of young girls than boys.
Fossils of four new cetacean species have been discovered at a road construction site in California.
A new project to map the activity of the human brain could receive more than $3 billion dollars in federal funds in President Obama’s upcoming budget proposal.