A 325-metre-high climate research tower is being built in the Amazon rainforest more
Bacteriorhodopsin and channelrhodopsin, which originates from a unicellular green alga, are advancing to become new tools in neurobiology more
There are few topics as controversial as research involving experiments on animals in general and primates in particular. more
Scientists have decoded the functioning of the short-term memory more
Functional magnetic resonance images reflect input signals of nerve cells more
At least two regions of the brain decide what we perceive more
Besides carrying genetic code, RNA also catalyses the translation of that code into proteins. This means that RNA can account for a surprising amount of the story. more
The goal of synthetic biology is to produce novel living systems with desirable properties. more
The sea is teeming with microorganisms. But the communities they form are highly diverse, and still underexplored. more
Three research articles from the Yearbook 2014 more
