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Anna Rothschild • March 10, 2010
Genetic evidence shows environment, not humans, killed off Arctic beasts
Ferris Jabr • March 7, 2010
Before 'Avatar' could hit the silver screen, it needed one plant scientist’s green thumbs up
Olivia Koski • February 22, 2010
Just a one hour train ride from New York City, eagles abound.
Ariel Bleicher • February 15, 2010
Boozing Bats Are Still Expert Fliers
Ferris Jabr • February 3, 2010
Rebecca Skloot’s new book reveals untold truths about one of medical science’s most important tools
Anna Rothschild • January 25, 2010
Wearing this rodent on the runway could save Louisiana’s wetlands
Ferris Jabr • October 22, 2009
Is evolution a theory or fact?
Alyson Kenward • October 9, 2009
Wait, isn't that biology?
Emily Elert • October 6, 2009
A new tool allows scientists to study how the brain grows and develops.
Ferris Jabr • September 23, 2009
How one scientist uses the Xbox 360 to study the human heart.
Crystal Gammon • September 12, 2009
Scientists pinpoint the region of the brain that controls your comfort zone.
Lindsey Konkel • February 20, 2009
Seventy million years before birds took flight, pterosaurs – some as large as a small airplane – somehow soared through the Mesozoic skies. Scientists have speculated for decades about how […]
Robert Goodier • February 6, 2009
Eric Kandel has a gulping, throaty laugh, the rare kind that sounds like a goose might if it could honk as it inhales. It’s contagious, not just because the sound […]
Lindsey Konkel • December 27, 2008
As short as they are enigmatic, the three-foot-tall “hobbit people” have provoked controversy since the 2003 discovery of their fossilized remains on the Indonesian island of Flores. No one knows […]
Robert Goodier • December 2, 2008
Biofilms. They’re like Frankenstein’s monster in microscopic form. They are living, heaving, powerful patchworks of microscopic creatures that have learned to seize the advantage of numbers. When individual, free-wheeling microbes […]