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A Canadian menagerie lets visitors get up close and personal with insects to help make crawlies less creepy.

Field studies reveal non-virulent bacteria take advantage of their virulent counterparts to get a free pass into their host.

A drug widely used to control glucose metabolism promotes neurogenesis, pointing to new directions for brain injury and disease therapeutics.

The recently hyped amoeba-flagellate Collodictyon has many secrets to tell about early eukaryotic evolution.

Nanoparticle-loaded moisturisers could help to treat skin diseases by smuggling gene-silencing molecules into skin cells.

Scientists find that declining DNA methylation in mouse neurons may cause age-related memory deficits.

ALS patients take their fate into their own hands, self-administering an unapproved chemical and collating their results online.

Laser-based isotope detection systems are moving into the realm of food authentication.

New changes at The Scientist will ensure that we continue to showcase the best and brightest ideas in the life sciences.

The discovery of the 2.5-million-year-old Taung Child skull marked a turning point in the study of human brain evolution.

Dietary supplements can have serious side effects when mixed with prescription drugs, but not all herb-drug interactions are bad.

Is printing out your own lab equipment, molecular models, and drug compounds the wave of the future?