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Head trauma in the funny pages
Richard P. Grant | Jun 17, 2011 | 1 min read
Researchers are using real-world methods to study traumatic brain injuries in a comic book.
Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain
Catherine Offord | Dec 1, 2020 | 10+ min read
Technologies such as noninvasive brain stimulation and virtual reality gaming offer insights into how dreams arise and what functions they might serve.
How Social Isolation Affects the Brain
Catherine Offord | Jul 13, 2020 | 10+ min read
Absence of human contact is associated with declines in cognitive function. But as the COVID-19 pandemic brings concerns about the potential harms of isolation to the fore, researchers are still hunting for concrete evidence of a causal role as well as possible mechanisms.
African AIDS Vaccine Programme launched
Jacqui Wise(patjacq@mweb.co.za) | Jun 11, 2002 | 4 min read
New initiative aims to develop a vaccine against the HIV subtype most prevalent in Africa.
Capsule Reviews
Annie Gottlieb | Nov 1, 2012 | 4 min read
Spillover, Answers for Aristotle, Who’s in Charge? and Science Set Free
The Fulbright Program At 43: Prestigious But Not Perfect
Linda Marsa | Jul 21, 1991 | 9 min read
Last July, James Fallon, a professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of California, Irvine, traveled on a Fulbright scholarship to the University of Nairobi, Kenya, to build a neuroscience laboratory on the campus from the ground up. "I hadn't taken a sabbatical in 12 years," Fallon says, "and I could have gone to some high-profile place like Cambridge. But I thought, `Why not go to a completely different culture?' And the lure of starting something from scratch and making a lasti
a mockup of an at-home COVID-19 test in development
Top Technical Advances of 2020
Shawna Williams | Dec 18, 2020 | 3 min read
The pandemic spurred innovation in a variety of ways, from CRISPR-based diagnostics to cell biology benchwork at home.
Top 10 Innovations 2013
The Scientist | Dec 1, 2013 | 10+ min read
The Scientist’s annual competition uncovered a bonanza of interesting technologies that made their way onto the market and into labs this year.
Updated July 9
Track COVID-19 Vaccines Advancing Through Clinical Trials
The Scientist | Apr 7, 2020 | 10+ min read
Find the latest updates in this one-stop resource, including efficacy data and side effects of approved shots, as well as progress on new candidates entering human studies.
Top Scientists Share Wisdom With 1991's Graduating Students
The Scientist Staff | Jun 23, 1991 | 10+ min read
Editor's Note: During the last two months, academic institutions throughout the United States celebrated, with traditional pomp and circumstance, the graduation of the class of 1991. Those graduates who have chosen to pursue science careers are coming into the field at what may well be the most exciting time to do so--when new developments in such disciplines as molecular biology and neuroscience make possible investigations that were unthinkable a mere decade ago, and crises like AIDS and the

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