Articles by Carrie Arnold

Microbiologist Nick Loman talks about the power of artificial intelligence and the best way to use it.

A retired entomologist discovers a world of behavioral diversity in the courtship rituals of a well-studied moth species.

Cracking the case of laboratory mice that suddenly stopped reproducing involved a little chemical sleuthing

By Carrie Arnold Kelly Benoit-Bird: Sounding the Deep Peter Krupp Associate professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. Age: 34When her cell phone rang at 7:30 one morning last September, marine scientist Kelly Benoit-Bird eyeballed the caller ID and decided it was a prank or a wrong number. Seven months pregnant and in desperate need of some quality shut-eye, she turned over and went back to sleep. But when the phone

Associate professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. Age: 34

New genetic analyses show that multicellularity was gained -- and lost -- several times in the blue-green algae

Researchers show how stem cells in hair follicles can transform into cancer while helping to heal an injury

Researchers discover the first virus that can infect Caenorhabditis elegans

Plasmodium microbes that cause malaria coordinate with the internal clocks of their hosts to increase their chances of survival

By Carrie Arnold Master Collaborator Stoma on a tobacco leaf Brian Sullivan / Getty images When University of California, Riverside, botanist Sean Cutler figured out how the hormone abscisic acid (ABA) helps plants survive drought, the discovery felt more like a burden than a triumph. His finding was in jeopardy of languishing unpublished because previous research on the hormone was tainted by suspect results and retracted papers. In the 1980s, scientis

Banding together to search for a plant hormone receptor

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A mathematical model of cell signaling helps explain how animal patterns emerge

Is something in the environment making everyone -- animals and humans -- gain weight?

By Carrie Arnold Primate business A female study subject (with twins) scent marking at the Duke Lemur Center David Haring/Duke Lemur Center Sniffing the armpit of a sweaty T-shirt seems like it would give you more information about a person’s laundry habits than their potential qualities as a mate. But an array of complex signaling chemicals in sweat and other secretions allows humans and other primates to determine just who would make the best partner.