Biologists
What is Killing the Bats?
Can scientists stop white-nose syndrome, a new disease that is killing bats in catastrophic numbers?
August 2011 |
By Michelle Nijhuis
Wild Goose Chase
How one man's obsession saved an "extinct" species
January 02, 2009 |
By Rob R. Dunn
Wolf Tracker
Biologist Gudrun Pflueger talks about her encounter with a Canadian pack
March 11, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Q and A With the Rhino Man
Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros
March 01, 2008 |
By Sarah Zielinski
Trials of a Primatologist
How did a renowned scientist who has done groundbreaking research in Brazil run afoul of authorities there?
February 2008 |
By Joshua Hammer
Dogged
Primatologist Brian Hare investigates the social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos in Africa. But dogs and foxes showed him the way
October 2007 |
By Virginia Morell
Song and Dance Man
Growing up in a gritty urban neighborhood, Erich Jarvis dreamed of becoming a ballet star. Now the scientist's studies of how birds learn to sing are forging a new understanding of the human brain
November 2006 |
By Jerry Adler
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science.
June 2006 |
By Amy Crawford
35 Who Made a Difference: Mark Plotkin
An ethnobotanist takes up the cause of rain forest conservation
November 01, 2005 |
By Elizabeth Royte
35 Who Made a Difference: James Watson
After DNA, what could he possibly do for an encore?
November 01, 2005 |
By Smithsonian magazine
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson
Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
November 01, 2005 |
By Robin Marantz Henig
35 Who Made a Difference: Wes Jackson
In Kansas, a plant geneticist sows the seeds of sustainable agriculture
November 01, 2005 |
By Craig Canine
35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Langridge
His quest to peer into the essence of life no longer seems so strange
November 01, 2005 |
By Terence Monmaney
35 Who Made a Difference: Clyde Roper
He's spent his life chasing a sea monster that's never been taken alive
November 01, 2005 |
By Richard Ellis
35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson
Vindicated for his controversial sociobiology? Yes. Satisfied? Not yet
November 01, 2005 |
By Robert Wright
The Stubborn Scientist Who Unraveled A Mystery of the Night
Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming
October 2003 |
By Chip Brown
The Bone Collectors
A pair of biologists on Cumberland Island save the remains of dead sea critters for others to study
February 2001 |
By T. Edward Nickens
