The Scientist - USA (2020-11)

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We showcase the best of this year’s cutting-edge, life-science technology, as determined by a panel of expert judges. The winner ...

11.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 3 Contents Features 36 Rewilding with Teeth Can reintroducing apex hunters reinvigorate damaged ecosyste ...

BY SCIENTISTS FOR SCIENTISTS The Scientist Speaks is a new podcast produced byThe Scientist’s Creative Services Team. Once a mon ...

11.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 5 xx xx xx Department Contents JOHN MCCORD, UNC COASTA L STUDIES INSTITUTE; MARK STONE, UNIVERSITY OF WA ...

Online Contents 6 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com VIDEO Whale of a Problem Here’s what researchers know about the unusually hi ...

11.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 7 EDITORIAL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Bob Grant [email protected] MANAGING EDITOR Jef Akst jakst@the-scient ...

8 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com Contributors KATHERINE TAYLOR; M ATA N SHELOMI, MPI-CE; JANE WINSLOW Jeremy England remember ...

Looming Change I n this topsy-turvy year, the world has been waylaid by a viral pan- demic. But a larger and more intractable me ...

Exploring Life, Inspiring Innovation Each issue contains feature articles on hot new trends in research, profiles of up-and-comi ...

11.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 11 Speaking of Science QUOTES ACROSS Order, as of the nucleotide bases in a DNA molecule Living in a st ...

12 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com CRITIC AT LARGE I Published a Paper Claiming Pokémon Caused Coronavirus O n March 18, 2020, ...

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14 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com Notebook Sunken Microbial Treasure A rmed with a battery-powered underwater drill, maritime ...

11.2020 | THE SCIENTIST 15 And [we’ve] always known that there’s a microbial component to corrosion.” So this time, Richards was ...

16 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com discovered wooden wrecks—one around 500 meters deep and the other nearly 1,800 meters down— ...

freefall, and an order of magnitude greater than that of a sprinting cheetah. Those eye-watering numbers led Georgia Tech chemic ...

18 THE SCIENTIST | the-scientist.com Facing away from the web, the spider grips its silk net with its four back legs and pulls i ...