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Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes — an...
Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything Blind river dolphins, reclusive lemurs, a parrot as fearless as it is lovelorn … D...
What is life? Can we create it? Customize it? Edge has just published over six hours of video from their new Master Class on the future of b...
Why is the human phenotype so different from the chimpanzee, even though experts constantly point out how similar the genotypes are? Why are...
In 2002, bearing her microscope on a microbe that lives in the gut of fish, Bonnie Bassler isolated an elusive molecule called AI-2, which s...
Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria “talk” to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mo...
Using genetic sequencing, needle-in-a-haystack research, and dogged persistence (crucial to getting spoilage-susceptible samples through the...
Willie Smits works at the complicated intersection of humankind, the animal world and our green planet. In his early work as a forester in I...
Updated 10/29/08: Oxford announced yesterday the appointment of Professor Marcus du Sautoy to the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Under...