An animal behavior professor argues that crabs and lobsters respond to electrical shocks in a way that suggests discomfort.

Bottlenose dolphins appear to remember one another’s whistles for up to 2 decades.

Defects in TOP3β may lead to neural development problems in people with fragile X syndrome and schizophrenia.

Humans’ circadian clocks become skewed when they are exposed to electric lights but revert to a schedule more in tune with the sun when they go camping.

Biologists demonstrate the instability of employing a selfish strategy in the prisoner’s dilemma game.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

Scientists used a titanium wire framework to help ears made from collagen and sheep cartilage cells maintain their shape.

How a dinner-table conversation between two biologists led to the formulation of the theory that cells are the building blocks of all living organisms.

Ancient receptors in seeds bind a small molecule in smoke that promotes germination.

Meet some of the people featured in the August 2013 issue of The Scientist.

Conflict between former conference organizers has shuttered a website that has come to serve as a resource for the HIV/AIDS community.

Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary histories of hepatitis C virus samples to confirm that a Spanish anesthesiologist infected 275 of his patients.