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Preserving Endangered Gametes
By Jef Akst | March 1, 2012
Pierre Comizzoli, a reproductive physiologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, chats about his efforts to rescue endangered species from…
Swarming Mongolia
By Cristina Luiggi | February 1, 2012
For the past decade and a half, a crew of about 20 entomologists, water ecologists, and other specialists converges on…
Multicellular Yeast
By Jef Akst | January 16, 2012
Yeast selected to settle more quickly through a test tube evolved into multicellular, snowflake-like clusters in just 2 weeks, or…
2011′s Best and Brightest
By The Scientist Staff | January 1, 2012
In its brief, 4-year history, The Scientist’s annual Top 10 Innovations contest has become a showcase of the coolest life…
Kandel on Neuroscience
By Edyta Zielinska | October 1, 2011
Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the…
Chasing Grasshoppers
By Cristina Luiggi | August 12, 2011
A conversation with Dan Otte, a South African artist and curator of entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in…
Learning Addiction
By Cristina Luiggi | July 13, 2011
Eleanor Simpson, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a recent Nature paper that probes dopamine’s role in helping…
Scanning Ancient Animal Mummies
By Cristina Luiggi | July 1, 2011
A collection of ancient Egyptian animal mummies from the Brooklyn Museum is subjected to the powerful X-rays of a CT…
Meet the Crystal Smasher
July 1, 2011
Take a tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose ultra-powerful X-ray beam is being used to solve the…
Optogenetics: A Light Switch for Neurons
By Edward S. Boyden | July 1, 2011
This animation illustrates optogenetics—a radical new technology for controlling brain activity with light. Ed Boyden, the co-inventor of this technology,…
