Features
Online First

Caught on Camera
Selected Images of the Day from www.the-scientist.com
Capsule Reviews

Capsule Reviews
Madness and Memory, Promoting the Planck Club, The Carnivore Way, and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The Literature

The Telltale Tail
A symbiotic relationship between squid and bacteria provides an alternative explanation for bacterial sheathed flagella.

Long-Distance Call
Neurons may use interferon signals transmitted over great distances to fend off viral infection.

Inactive Actin
Clathrin-mediated endocytosis shuts down during mitosis in eukaryotic cells because all of the required actin is hoarded by the cytoskeleton.
Profiles

The Energizer
György Hajnóczky uncovers the chemical and physical strategies by which mitochondria communicate and function within a cell.
Scientist to Watch

Sophie Dumont: Forces at Play
Assistant Professor, Department of Cell & Tissue Biology, University of California, San Francisco. Age: 38
Lab Tools

Accelerating Antibody Discovery
Techniques for faster discovery and isolation of human monoclonal antibodies

Hear Ye, Hear Ye
Tools for tracking quorum-sensing signals in bacterial colonies
Bio Business

Sharing the Wealth
From research results to electronic health records, biomedical data are becoming increasingly accessible. How can scientists best capitalize on the information deluge?
Reading Frames

The Skin We’re In
Beneath maladies of the skin lie psychosocial stigma and pain.
Foundations

H.M.’s Brain, 1953–Present
A temporal lobectomy led to profound memory impairment in a man who became the subject of neuroscientists for the rest of his life—and beyond.
Modus Operandi

Fuel Gauge
An optical reporter quantitatively measures the ATP demands of presynaptic neurons.
Critic at Large

Psychiatry: An SOS Call
Social policies shaped the practice of psychiatry in the past. As the discipline becomes ever more scientific, the effects of social policy on patient well-being must not be ignored.
Notebook

The Crowd Takes On the Computer
Gangs of nonexperts are outperforming science’s best efforts at automating biological problem solving.

The Youngest Victims
Linking single-gene defects to inflammatory bowel disease in young children may help all sufferers of the illness.

Unsinkable Evidence
Genetic testing disproves one woman’s claims to have been a survivor of the Titanic disaster.

Dog’s Worst Friend
US dogs face a deadly threat from algae-spawned toxins lurking in lakes, but there may be an antidote.
Speaking of Science

Speaking of Science
May 2014's selection of notable quotes
Editorial

Your Brain on Art
A new scientific discipline investigates the neurology underlying the experience and the creation of beauty.
Contributors

Contributors
Meet some of the people featured in the May 2014 issue of The Scientist
Cover Story

Neuroaesthetics
Researchers unravel the biology of beauty and art.