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  1. Life

    Early land arthropods sported shells

    Ancient ocean-dwelling arthropods may have worn shells to enable their transition to land.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Animals

    Oh, he’s such a lab bird

    Bold flycatchers may be more likely than shy birds to get trapped for lab studies.

    By Susan Milius

  3. Science needs ace communicators and politicians

    In February, Alice Huang became president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The renowned virologist began her career at Harvard in 1971, eventually becoming director of the laboratories of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital Boston. After a stint at New York University, she moved to the California Institute of Technology in 1997 […]

    By Alice Huang

  4. Book Review: An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds by Jonathan Silvertown

    Review by Susan Milius.