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Cooking Up Creative Solutions

By H. Steven Wiley | May 1, 2012

More collaborators and more data are the key ingredients.

Corbis, Jasper White

Antibiotics in the Animals We Eat

By Bonnie M. Marshall and Stuart B. Levy | April 1, 2012

Low-dose antibiotics in animal feed fuel drug-resistance in human infectious diseases.

istockphoto.com, ideabug

Reading Into the Future

By Richard Smith | April 1, 2012

Will traditional scientific journals follow newspapers into oblivion?

istockphoto.com, Benoit Chartron

One Year On

By Nick Beresford and Jordi Vives i Batlle | March 1, 2012

Some thoughts about the ecological fallout from Fukushima

istockphoto, Logorilla (cross icon); boris yankov (pencil)

Never Say Never

By H. Steven Wiley | February 1, 2012

Novel observations can sometimes be correct for unexpected reasons.

CHANGE HOW SCIENCE IS TAUGHT: Traditional lecture-based science courses don’t stimulate large numbers of entering students to pursue a career in science.istockphoto, Lisa Klumpp

Learning by Doing

By Sarah L. Simmons | February 1, 2012

Having freshmen perform research doesn’t just improve undergraduate learning, it convinces more students to become science majors.

Istockphoto.com, Courtney Keating

An Evolving Science for an Evolving Time

By Colin D. Butler | January 1, 2012

Twenty-first century challenges to the public health of all the world’s populations require forward-looking commitments from epidemiologists.

Wikicommons

From Test Tube to Hypodermic Needle

By James V. Parker and P. Michael Conn | December 1, 2011

A prescription for educating the public on the value of using animals in medical research

Wikicommons

Avoiding Animal Testing

By Andrew Rowan | December 1, 2011

Advances in cell-culture technologies are paving the way to the complete elimination of animals from the laboratory.

A cluster of cerebellar granule cells grown in culture Wellcome Images

Vive la Différence

By H. Steven Wiley | September 1, 2011

Measuring how individual cells differ from each other will enhance the predictive power of biology.