Mitzi Perdue, the double-heiress of Sheraton Hotels and Perdue Farms, grew up wearing hand-me-downs and getting a public education. She’s quick to draw her purse strings by flying economy ...

The results: In keeping with prior research, male fruit flies who had not yet mated were more drawn to alcohol. Those that consumed methanol showed a marked increase in the levels of pheromones ...

With no absence of fanfare, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus has finally opened its doors. It is now looking for life scientists with backgrounds in mathematics, ...

The leaders of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have just now settled on what they want to do with the $400 million lab they're building: study the imaging of thought itself.

Interdisciplinary institute is recruiting chemists to probe brain function, develop new imaging tools ...

What kind of building leads to science breakthroughs? That's the topic of LabOratory: Speaking of Science and Its Architecture (MIT Press).. Its authors -- Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, professor of ...

You may disagree with these particular evaluations, but it’s clear that places like Janelia Farm are pretty rare these days. And, in Betzig’s view, ...

Hayworth, a senior scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Va., says that this instinctive reaction of preserving ourselves at all costs is what ...

Igor Siwanowicz's image of planthopper nymph gears won 9th place in the Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition. Photo courtesy of Igor Siwanowicz, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, ...

Image captured by a new 3-D microscope--Courtesy of Janelia A new microscope is transforming the kinds of questions that scientists can study. It offers more detailed and 3-D images of molecules ...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Eric Betzig of Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Stefan W. Hell of Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry ...