In Chapter 13, “The Final Assault,” author Venki Ramakrishnan relays the moment when he and collaborators finally solved the structure of a ribosomal subunit.

Nobel laureate Venki Ramakrishnan’s new book recounts the tale of researchers striving to understand an ancient molecular machine that is essential for all life.

In a new book, a vaccine researcher describes the scientific facts and personal anecdotes behind his family’s experience with autism and its comorbid disabilities.

In Chapter 6, “The Elephant’s Graveyard,” authors Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby discuss groundbreaking research into the psychology of forgetting.

The Østby sisters, one a neuroscientist and the other a writer, explore the uncharted territory of memory in their new book.

In this adapted excerpt from the book, the author relays the past, present, and future of artificial hearts.

Both the scientific community and the general public still have a lot to learn from the largest mesocosm research project ever conducted.

Although highly controversial now, keeping orcas in captivity helped transform popular and scientific conceptions of the marine mammal from an unfeeling killer to a complex, intelligent animal.

In Chapter 15, author Jason Colby describes a scene of captive orca release and early research into the species' behavior and social organization