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This newly discovered protist, Tritrichomonas musculis, lives in the mouse gut and helps protect its host from infection.

A new technique for cracking open insect exoskeletons without damaging tissue underneath allowed University of Iowa researchers to capture this image of sensory cells in a fruit fly antenna.

These fruit fly (Drosophila) guts are genetically altered to fluoresce green when an immune response is triggered, visualizing the response to infection.

Electron micrograph of a piece of activated carbon—used for waste treatment—with a spherical microparticle balanced perfectly on a ledge.

Meet some of the people featured in the October 2016 issue of The Scientist

Roger Tsien R.I.P., predatory publishing, and diversity in science

Since The Scientist published its first issue in October 1986, life-science research has transformed from a manual and often tedious task to a high-tech, largely automated process of unprecedented efficiency.

Meet the researcher/entrepreneur who started a nonprofit that seeks to solve the science behind a rare disease that threatens the life of her younger brother.

Harvard biologist George Church talks gene therapy, aging, and reviving the woolly mammoth with Stephen Colbert.

Oregonian Noah Strycker broke the world Big Year birding record when he saw his 4,342nd species of the calendar year in 2015.

Here's a glimpse at how the body of an embryonic African house snake (Boaedon fuliginosus) develops within an egg.

The ears of a desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) help the mammal keep cool under the baking sun with a network of blood vessels that acts like a car radiator.

Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) huddle close in a snowstorm.

Forager Sahara Desert ants (Cataglyphis bicolor) are known to carry worker ants that are unfamiliar with the landscape from one nest site to another.

Butterflies in the Amazon congregate on the head of a caiman to collect salt, a scarce mineral.