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Floyd Dewhirst is well aware that spit has a lowly status in the minds of most people. But this fact has never stopped him from continuing the quest he began [...]

Author(s): Trisha Gura [1] [illus. 1] For a few days each October, scientists who were previously famous only within their narrow fields of endeavour are fêted as heroic pioneers who [...]

Author(s): Trisha Gura [1] [illus. 2] Half a century ago, the British countryside echoed to the call of the skylark. Today, this much-loved bird is rarely heard. It was the [...]

Author(s): Trisha Gura [1] [illus. 1] In the early 1990s, Ben Barres wanted to explore a wild idea: could a long-ignored type of cell play a major role in building [...]

Author(s): Trisha Gura [illus. 2] When biologists talk of the 'evolution wars', they usually mean the ongoing battle for supremacy in American schoolrooms between Darwinists and their creationist opponents. But [...]

Author(s): Trisha Gura [1] [illus. 2] Imagine three researchers locked in a dark room with an elephant. One, grasping the trunk, decides it is a fire hose. The second, holding [...]

Jonathan Tilly likes to gauge the significance of his work by the hair on the backs of his arms. 'Look at it standing up,' he says, thrusting out his forearm [...]