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The Physics of Diving Gannets, Bird Navigation, and Speedy Tiger Beetles

Jen-Luc Piquant was at the APS March Meeting in San Antonio, Texas this week, a longtime favorite conference, and often touted as the largest physics conference of the year, covering a diverse range... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Complex Societies Evolved without Belief in All-Powerful Deity

vendredi 6 mars 2015 — More Science, Evolution
The emergence of politically sophisticated societies may be assisted by faith in supernatural spirits but does not require "big god" religion -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Ringling Bros. Circus to Stop Elephant Acts by 2018

jeudi 5 mars 2015 — More Science, Society & Policy, Evolution
(Adds details about decision) By Colleen Jenkins March 5 (Reuters) - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will eliminate its elephant acts - long an integral part of the spectacle billed as... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Whale Grandmas' Longevity Linked to Knowledge

Whale females, like humans, live well past menopause, a trait possibly selected for because their knowledge base can help their entire clan survive. Dina Fine Maron reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

CO2 Levels for February Eclipsed Prehistoric Highs

Global warming is headed back to the future as the CO2 level reaches a new high -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Jawbone Fossil May Mark Dawn of Humankind

A 2.8-million-year mandible and a digital model of a key fossil paint a complicated picture of the genus Homo -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

How Lab Rats Are Changing Our View of Obesity

New study findings may flesh out chemical influences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

After 400 Million Years, Coelacanth at Risk of Extinction

It may have hidden in the ocean for millions of years, but life today poses numerous challenges for the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), the "living fossil" fish that was famously... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Meet the Scaly-Tail Gliders

Among the weirdest and most fascinating of rodents are the scalytails/scaly-tails, scaly-tailed squirrels or anomalures, properly termed Anomaluridae. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Tiny Cell Grows Giant Death Spike and Lives to Grow Another

Let’s say you’re a small cell engaged in heavy manufacturing. Like most animal cells, you are coated only in a thin membrane made a double layer of fluid fat-like molecules. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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