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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…
Bat Hunt
By Cristina Luiggi | January 1, 2012
For the past four years, Bucknell University mammalogist DeeAnn Reeder has been raising nets high into the darkened forest canopies of…
Roanoke Revisited
By Kerry Grens | January 1, 2012
In July 1587, a British colonist named John White accompanied 117 people to settle a small island sheltered within the…
Newts’ New Eyes
By Richard P. Grant | December 1, 2011
Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However,…
Teen DNA Detectives
By Kerry Grens | December 1, 2011
Genomicist Mark Stoeckle and three high school students have taken do-it-yourself science to a new level. Research headquarters are Stoeckle’s…
Nari’s Shark Bite
By Jef Akst | December 1, 2011
In February 2009, a bottlenose dolphin named Nari swam up to the Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort on Moreton Island off…
One-Eyed Shark
By Jef Akst | October 19, 2011
This is not an ancient one-eyed species, but an animal suffering from a rare congenital condition known as cyclopia, which…
Celebrating 25 Years of The Scientist
October 1, 2011
Our silver anniversary issue celebrates a quarter century of covering major advances in the life sciences—some in fields that didn’t even exist when we first went to press—and looks ahead to future research milestones.
