New research suggests that the flow of carbon through plants to underground ecosystems may be crucial to how the environment responds to climate change.
New research suggests that the flow of carbon through plants to underground ecosystems may be crucial to how the environment responds to climate change.
Getting the big picture means asking lots of little questions.
A young botanist pays tribute to his mentor by naming a newly discovered, rare species in his honor.
August 1, 2011
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2011 issue of The Scientist.
Fisheries scientist ordered to refuse interviews about research on salmon decline.
Unlike human brains, chimpanzee brains don’t get smaller as they age, suggesting that pronounced neurological decline is a uniquely human byproduct of our oversized brains and extreme longevity.
Eleanor Simpson, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a recent Nature paper that probes dopamine's role in helping animals make positive associations to stimuli that herald pleasurable outcomes (such as the handing out of food).