A new DNA assay developed by forensic scientists helps archaeologists reconstruct eye and hair color from old teeth and bones.
A new DNA assay developed by forensic scientists helps archaeologists reconstruct eye and hair color from old teeth and bones.
By varying the size of their steps, dynein motor proteins work effectively as teams to carry heavy loads around the cell.
Animal-rights activists devastate a psychiatric research lab at the University of Milan.
Rodents and fruit flies appear to be able to sense nutrients even when they can’t taste the food they’re eating. Now, researchers are trying to figure out how.
A new survey finds a high incidence of sexual harassment and rape among women doing anthropological field work.
This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.
The insect-inspired dance by choreographer Paul Taylor strikes the perfect balance between six-legged realism and artistic fancy.
Researchers develop two small molecules that slow the growth of human cancer cells.
Satellites of the Golgi apparatus generate the microtubules used to grow outer dendrite branches in Drosophila neurons.
| April 1, 2013
Meet some of the people featured in the April 2013 issue of The Scientist.