A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets.
A new exhibit at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia celebrates the work of an artist who is also the world’s authority on grasshoppers and crickets.
A conversation with Dan Otte, a South African artist and curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Otte also happens to have discovered around 20 percent of the cricket species known to date.
Plant and fungal symbionts swap more resources with partners that provide a greater return of nutrients.
More than 100 researchers have left a neuroscience institute in Brazil in the last couple of weeks, protesting managerial problems they say are thwarting their work.
Rat neurons only weakly respond as the animals climbed upwards, suggesting the brain's map of the environment doesn't account for altitude.
The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.
Heat-sensing protein channels in vampire bats allow the flying mammals to find the best place to sink their teeth into their prey.
A new educational framework swaps breadth of scientific disciplines for depth and emphasizes the process of science.
The well-studied hormone functions as a neurotransmitter in the brains of zebra finches.
| August 1, 2011
In Chapter 6, "Research and Teaching at the All-Administrative University," author Benjamin Ginsberg describes the perils of pursuing scholarship and teaching in the industrial environment of today's American institutions of higher learning.