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Excerpts from Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes

Almost two hundred years after the father of evolution was born, the implications of his ideas are still being recognized.

A look at the Museum of Modern Art's "Design and the Elastic Mind"

A normal Arabidopsis plant (center), surrounded by different hybrids formed by crossing two healthy plants. Credit: Kirsten Bomblies and Detlef Weigel, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen" />A normal Arabidopsis plant (center), surrounded by different hybrids formed by crossing two healthy plants. Credit: Kirsten Bomblies and Detlef Weigel, Max Planck

James Bedell's cranium was cracked by a Confederate saber in 1863 and now resides in Washington, DC. Credit: Courtesy of National Museum of Health and Medicine, surgical photograph no. 8" />James Bedell's cranium was cracked by a Confederate saber in 1863 and now resides in Washington, DC. Credit: Courtesy of National Museum of Health and Medicine, surgical photograph no. 8 One of the

Two decades ago, neurologist Ivan Osorio realized that he and his peers were stuck. Specifically, they were "making little progress" understanding "one of medicine's most intriguing intellectual challenges" - sudden, often debilitating surges of brain electrical activity known as epileptic seizures. So Osorio decided to look outside clinical medicine. He discovered tha

Noreen O'Neill, who died of melanoma in July, 2000. Credit: Courtesy of the O'Neill family" />Noreen O'Neill, who died of melanoma in July, 2000. Credit: Courtesy of the O'Neill family Meenhard Herlyn studied melanoma for 20 years before he ever met a single patient with the disease. He has published more than 380 papers on melanoma and other cancers, in which he discovered monoclonal antibod

Timothy Caulfield Credit: © Creative Services, University of Alberta" />Timothy Caulfield Credit: © Creative Services, University of AlbertaTimothy Caulfield has spent years listening to scientists complain that the media does a poor job of explaining science. As research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta, he has heard this so often, he says, that he started to believe it too. Finally, he decided to find o

Credit: courtesy of Trish Brafford" /> Credit: courtesy of Trish Brafford The human melanoma cell lines at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia make up one of the most comprehensive collections of disease cell lines in the world. Since 1977, Meenhard Herlyn and his colleagues (click to read the related story A life behind life science) have collected samples from approximately 4,000 tumors, and esta

Endangered species need time and science to survive a world altered by human disturbance; Margaret Guthrie reviews "Darwin's Fox and My Coyote"

The domains of Sos1 have their say

A flying fox Credit: Right: courtesy of Australian Animal Health Laboratory" />A flying fox Credit: Right: courtesy of Australian Animal Health Laboratory Taking a saliva sample from the world's largest bat is not easy under ordinary circumstances, but obtaining that same sample from a SARS-infected flying fox — while using a 4-foot cotton swab and wearing a pressurized biosafety suit with double-layered rub