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What lies untapped beneath the surface of published clinical trial analyses could rock the world of independent review.

From accounts of deformed animals to scratch-and-sniff technology, Robert Boyle's early contributions to the Royal Society of London were prolific and wide ranging.

Associate Professor, Department of Urology, University of California, San Francisco. Age: 45

A new brown tree snake control strategy takes to the skies as scientists scatter toxic rodents over Guam’s forest canopy.

Targeting the briefest moment in chemistry may lead to an exceptionally strong new class of drugs.

Telomeres have been linked to numerous diseases over the years, but how exactly short telomeres cause diseases and how medicine can prevent telomere erosion are still up for debate.

Research on an 18th and 19th century Finnish population suggests that agriculture and monogamy may not have stopped human evolution.

A US Fish and Wildlife official responds to the assertion that the northern spotted owl is being mismanaged by government.

A population of neurons in pigeon brains encodes direction, intensity, and polarity of the Earth’s magnetic field.

A combination of antibiotics and the body’s own defensive metabolites clears bacterial infections faster than antibiotics alone.

From breast milk stem cells to bone repair, this year’s EB conference held a number of exciting advances that could one day be translated into therapies.

Editors at PLoS Medicine suggest that merely disclosing conflicts of interest is insufficient and possibly even counterproductive.