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Scenes from the labs that study the unique organ

The professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at Simon Fraser University is also an accomplished painter.

An organization in Tanzania trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

Some of the fantastical marine life depicted in a rare, 18th-century book

Meet some of the products that didn't break into the Top 10 in 2013, but recieved praise from our expert judges nonetheless.

December 2013's Scientist to Watch is also an accomplished painter.

Surprising trends reveal themselves in this year's Salary Survey statistics.

The neuron-inspired art of erstwhile neuroscientist Greg Dunn

Massachusetts-based artist Danny Quirk uses latex body paint to bring anatomical structures to life.

Meet a few robots that pose as flesh-and-blood critters to advance science.

The community-based healthcare effort that helped stamp out river blindness in one area of Sudan

A geophysicist stumbled on a way to track elusive fin whales with seismometers.

Scientist to Watch Josh Snodgrass has traveled the world, from Siberia to South America, to study how the physiology of indigenous peoples shifts with changing lifestyles.

Peek inside the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy, where researchers are unravelling the DNA of centuries-old mummies.

Take a closer look at some of the statistics generated by The Scientist's Best Place to Work Academia 2013 survey.

Inside the Cold War bunker where wildlife biologists tried to create a safe haven for bats at risk of contracting a deadly fungal disease

Ecologist Nalini Nadkarni advances forest conservation and science advocacy by enlisting the help of prisoners.

Biomimicry yields a new type of patch that may help wounds heal faster.

UCLA ecologist Dan Blumstein tracks a fluctuating population of the alpine rodents in Colorado that has been studied for more than 40 years.

Scientists working in developing nations who engage in capacity building find it bolsters the lives of locals and their own work.