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Spot the Moth
By Cristina Luiggi | May 1, 2012
It’s a well-known story: The peppered moth’s ancestral typica phenotype is white with dark speckles. In the decades following the…
Telltale Tortoises
By Jef Akst | April 1, 2012
Researchers are permanently marking endangered reptiles in Madagascar to keep the animals from entering the illegal wildlife trade. Read the…
Best Places for Postdocs, 2012
By Sabrina Richards | March 29, 2012
Postdocs at this year’s top-ranked institutions get to tackle human health and disease from every angle. Scientists at the Donald…
BeetleCam, Take Two
By Cristina Luiggi | March 15, 2012
The BeetleCam is back! And this time, it’s lion proof. The new, improved, and heavily armored version of the remote…
Coral Clones
By Hannah Waters | March 1, 2012
Coral embryos drifting in rough ocean waves are essentially naked, with no protective membrane to keep them from breaking apart…
A Whiff of TB
By Edyta Zielinska | March 1, 2012
Chemical ecologist Max Suckling at the Institute for Plant and Food Research Ltd. and summer student Rachael Sagar use Pavlovian…
Electron Microscopy Through the Ages
By Cristina Luiggi | March 1, 2012
Invented in the early 1930s, electron microscopy revolutionized the fields of materials science and ushered in the new field of…
From Architecture to Art
By Jef Akst | February 16, 2012
Architecture-student-turned-artist Macoto Murayama applies the computer graphics programs and techniques he learned while studying architecture at Miyagi University of Education…
The View From Above
By Cristina Luiggi | February 1, 2012
Life scientists from a wide range of fields—from ecology and epidemiology to anthropology, marine microbiology, and animal behavior—are increasingly turning…
Cyan Wonders
By Cristina Luiggi | February 1, 2012
In 1842, Anna Atkins, a 43-year-old amateur botanist from Kent, England, began experimenting with a brand-new photographic process called cyanotype…
