I have now worked in seven states across India, and weve looked at human-wildlife interactions, particularly human-wildlife conflict ranging from crop...
The Unnatural World is the title of a new book by former Scientific American environment editor David Biello. The subtitle: The Race to Remake Civiliz...
Your nose may be the first place you think of as a source of mucus. But mucus is a major player in your gut, too. There's antimicrobial peptides and p...
Climate change may be partly to blame for the massive die-off of pine trees in the western U.S. But it works the other way, too: forest die-offs can a...
The way we sample much of the world's oceans, to see what's living down there, is pretty basic: Ask fishermen. Or just stick a net down there, and exa...
The last few years have seen numerous widely publicized incidents of civilians, black men in particular, being killed by police. In response, many off...
As somebody who is part of the executive branch and serving in this role which I can consider to be a great privilege, as director of NIH, I am confid...
Ebola outbreaks before the most recent one have been fairly contained: geographically limited, and just a couple hundred cases. The latest outbreak, t...
Imagine you had never tasted lemonade. You would still probably assume that lemon juice mixed with sugar tastes better than lemon juice alone. Because...
The old expression bird brain, referring to a small or inadequate brain sizeits not all that accurate. Take crows, for example, and other corvids, lik...
