Selected Shorts

Infectious Disease

Parasite mismatch explains mediocre performance of malaria vaccine

Trade deal to hinder generic-drug use

Malaria Surge Feared

Mapping the malaria prevention project

Global Fund’s malaria plan under scrutiny

‘Hidden’ tuberculosis raises drug-resistance fears

TB drugs chalk up rare win

Scientists push for lyme disease trials

The Hidden threat of West Nile

Evolution and ecology

Ancient sea jelly makes tree of life wobble

Marine worm rewrites theory of brain evolution

Bowerbirds trick mates with optical illusions

Jungle search estimates six million species worldwide

Leggy creatures and long branches

Ancient fossils unearthed in West Africa

X-rated worm videos reveal sex secrets

Friends connect on a genetic level

Biomedical and science policy

Calorie restriction falters in the long run

The dispossessed: Memories from Kings Park mental institution

Transgenic fish wins US regulatory backing

FDA to heed patient priorities in drug approvals

Antipsychotic deflates the brain

Florida abuzz over engineered mosquitoes

Early psychosis syndrome excluded from DSM-5

How I ran from war

How do tropical frogs get their stunning colors?

Gustav Klimt’s mysterious embryos

Taking the world’s pulse using supersmart graphics

Moulding fungal furniture the (un)natural way

Luminous life on show

A slice of finely furled paper

The afterlife of our electronic waste

Global Fund’s turbulent malaria program

Experts clash over tuberculosis targets

Buoyed by design

The Sandman Dineth

Beating a Retreat

Eye of Newt

Timbuktu’s ancient texts may hold life-saving cures

Scientists as rock stars?

Autism-Lyme correlation debunked

Web genomics exposes ethics gaps

Snubbed for a Nobel?