Contributors
| December 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the December 2012 issue of The Scientist.
| 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.
Decades can pass between the discovery of a new animal or plant and its official debut in the scientific literature.
The National Institutes of Health will get tough on grantees who fail to comply with its open-access funding rule.
An all-female species, distantly related to flatworms, steals all of genetic material it needs to diversify its genome.
An estimated 360 million Euros from the coffers of EU research funding was spent mistakenly; auditors blame overly complicated funding rules.
The crucial importance of language in the debate over the regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic tests
Continued overfishing of forage fish such as sardines and herring can result in devastating ecological and economic outcomes.
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.