A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science
Probing a 68-million-year-old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the ancient beasts
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Rediscovery of a Laotian rodent, orangutan culture and crossing the Bering Strait
Two robots, neither as graceful as its namesake, but no less accomplished, are among advances keeping scientists on the cutting edge
To her delight, social worker-turned-scientist Patricia Wright has found the mischievous Madagascar primates to be astonishingly complex
Why are coyotes, those cunning denizens of the plains and rural west, moving into urban centers like Chicago and Washington DC?
The nation’s storied wetland is the focus of the world’s largest environmental restoration project. But will that be enough?
With the world’s coral reefs in crisis, the author’s childhood memories guide a far-reaching study of the problem in the Bahamas
To prosecutors, it was child abuse - an Amish baby covered in bruises, but Dr. D. Holmes Morton had other ideas
For years, Robert Webster has been warning of a global influenza outbreak. Now governments worldwide are finally listening to him
An idealistic married couple defy poachers and police in strife-torn Zimbabwe to protect a threatened herd of placid pachyderms
Despite federal opposition to embryonic stem cell research, academic freedom and profits in California is luring scientists to the field
In Darwin’s Galápagos Islands, evolution is on display
A very large mammal will help tell an even weightier tale—about the ocean in this crowded, challenging century
Readers respond to the October issue
The Evolution of Charles Darwin
A creationist when he visited the Galápagos Islands, Darwin grasped the significance of the unique wildlife he found there only after he returned to London
Novel camera traps have documented the elusive cat in Arizona, suggesting it may not be gone from the United States after all
35 Who Made a Difference: Tim Berners-Lee
First he wrote the code for the World Wide Web. Then he gave it away
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