December 2012's selection of notable quotes
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
A type of scallop expels water and waste through a sort of cough that could reveal clues about water quality.
A senior cardiovascular disease and diabetes researcher at the University of Kentucky has been found guilty of falsifying data over the past 10 years.
Using satellite data, researchers calculate that mountain pine beetle infestations raise summertime temperatures in British Columbia’s pine forests by 1 degree Celsius.
Decades can pass between the discovery of a new animal or plant and its official debut in the scientific literature.
An all-female species, distantly related to flatworms, steals all of genetic material it needs to diversify its genome.
Nominated as a write-in candidate as a protest against the anti-science incumbent, famed naturalist Charles Darwin won 4,000 congressional votes in a Georgia county.
In Chapter 2, "Consequences and Evolution: The Cause That Works Backwards," author Susan M. Schneider places evolutionary theory in terms of the science of consequences.
| November 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.