The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
The heat emanating from large metropolitan areas may be changing weather patterns thousands of miles away.
From cardiovascular problems to neurological disorders, a plethora of new medical devices are reducing the need for surgery and improving the quality and safety of healthcare.
Stomachs of flesh-eating flies carry the DNA of animals in remote rainforests.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Using laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to automate and streamline laboratory tasks: three case studies
The science images and videos that captured our attention in 2012
Fungi in 100 million year-old seafloor sediments could possess novel antibiotics.
The US Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to get new devices on the market sooner—and antibiotics may be next.
Two species of songbirds pack their nests with scavenged cigarette butts that repel irksome parasites.
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.