Across cultures, victorious athletes raise their arms, puff out their chests and shout, in what appears to be a physical display of dominance. Erika Beras reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Richard Vigne, CEO of Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, admits that there’s not a huge amount of hope of saving the northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) from extinction. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
After the State of the Union address last night, everyone is talking about how best to spend tax dollars. So it seems appropriate to bring this into the conversation. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A recent experiment illuminates the puzzle of why female spiders sometimes eat males instead of mating with them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Few species recoveries have ever been as dramatic as that of the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber). Once overhunted to near extinction, only 1,200 beavers remained by the year 1900. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
By doggedly tracking California sea otters, marine biologists learn that sea otters often face bigger challenges than human pollution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A few people seem unhappy with my previous post in which I made the contention that falsification as a philosophy is much less relevant to chemistry than to physics, especially when chemists make... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
By doggedly tracking California sea otters, marine biologists learn that sea otters often face bigger challenges than human pollution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com