The US Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to get new devices on the market sooner—and antibiotics may be next.
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.
A type of scallop expels water and waste through a sort of cough that could reveal clues about water quality.
Using satellite data, researchers calculate that mountain pine beetle infestations raise summertime temperatures in British Columbia’s pine forests by 1 degree Celsius.
A Michigan University clinical researcher allegedly supplied a fund manager with information about drug trial results that the fund used to rake in more than $270 million.
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.
The European Commission approves the Western hemisphere’s first gene therapy, aimed at correcting a lipid-processing disorder.
Continued overfishing of forage fish such as sardines and herring can result in devastating ecological and economic outcomes.