The nationwide experiment will initially include around 100,000 volunteers.
How male and female brains diverge is a hotly debated topic, but the study of model organisms points to differences that cannot be ignored.
How male and female brains diverge is a hotly debated topic, but the study of model organisms points to differences that cannot be ignored.
Researchers working in Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, have unearthed the northernmost species of dinosaur ever found.
Researchers map 2.3 million species in a single phylogeny.
Researchers describe H. naledi, an ancient human ancestor of unknown age that may have buried its dead.
Meet some of the people featured in the September 2015 issue of The Scientist.
A new approach shows how both honesty and deception are stable features of noisy communication.
Fetal specimens collected by commercial whalers offer insights into how whales may have evolved their specialized hearing organs.
The form and function of the ears of modern land vertebrates cannot be understood without knowing how they evolved.
Biologist Christopher Coe answers readers’ questions about the prescient organ.