Breeding plants that can convert more carbon dioxide to food could help feed a growing population.
Breeding plants that can convert more carbon dioxide to food could help feed a growing population.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
The World Meteorological Organization finds that the atmospheric gases behind climate change reached a new record high in 2011.
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.
New noninvasive methods of selecting the most viable embryo could revolutionize in vitro fertilization.
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Meet some of the people featured in the November 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.