Recently added articles from The Scientist:
Shark attack
Aug 01, 2009; ... HOT PAPER IN ECOLOGY The paper: R.A. Myers et al., "Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean," Science, 315:1846-50, 2007. (Cited in 73 papers) The finding: Using over 30 years of species abundance data from 17 different fishery ...
The Golgi Stain, circa 1873
Aug 01, 2009; ... More than three decades after the German biologists Theodore Schwann and Matthias Schleiden first proposed that the cell was the basic functional unit of all living things, in 1838, many of the world's leading histologists still disagreed about the fine structure of the nervous system. Some ...
Got moose?
Aug 01, 2009; ... I'm sitting in the cab of a large pick-up whose roof bristles with radio antennae, on a narrow back road in the western, more wooded part of Massachusetts. On the seat between Dave Wattles and me is a radio the size of an automobile battery with knobs and dials on top. It's emitting a low static ...
Mail
Aug 01, 2009; ... Write The Scientist 400 Market Street, Suite 1250 Philadelphia, PA 19106 Email mail@the-scientist.com Fax (215)351-1146 Taxonomy, RIP? Re: "A fading field"' about the disappearance of traditional taxonomy, about fifteen years ago, I was accepted ...
Death, delimited
Aug 01, 2009; ... At about noon on March 26th, Steve Bellan was working in his office at Etosha Ecological Institute in northern Namibia when he got word of a fresh zebra carcass near the Gemsbokvlakte water hole, about 20 kilometers east on a dusty park road. Over the next hour, the bushy-haired Berkeley ...