Nouveautés sur le Web

Articles les plus récents

Boston's Pigeons Coo 'Wicked,' New York's 'Fuhgeddaboudit'

lundi 5 avril 2021 par Karen Hopkin — The Sciences, Evolution

The two city’s rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest

jeudi 1er avril 2021 par Rachel Nuwer — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

A Tsunami Likely Hurled Huge Rocks onto a Tiny Island

lundi 22 mars 2021 par Katherine Kornei — Advances, The Sciences, Evolution

A Caribbean island’s giant rocks were thought to be deposited by enormous waves -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Chimpanzees Show Altruism while Gathering around the Juice Fountain

mardi 16 mars 2021 par Mark Stratton — The Sciences, Evolution

New research tries to tease out whether our closest animal relatives can be selfless -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

That Mouse in Your House--It's Smarter, Thanks to You

mardi 9 mars 2021 par Christopher Intagliata — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

Scientists studied three varieties of house mice and found that those who had lived alongside humans the longest were also the craftiest at solving food puzzles. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Prehistoric Plankton Became Predators to Survive a Mass Extinction

lundi 8 mars 2021 par Riley Black — Advances, The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

When the sun disappeared, tiny coccoliths turned to hunting -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Neandertals Probably Perceived Speech Quite Well

lundi 8 mars 2021 par Jan Osterkamp — The Sciences, Evolution

Could they speak, too? Did they proposition modern humans in an interspecies creole language? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

An Ancient Proto-City Reveals the Origin of Home

lundi 1er mars 2021 par Annalee Newitz — Features, The Sciences, Evolution

The 9,000-year-old settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey shows how humans began putting down roots -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Mammoth Genomes Shatter Record for Oldest DNA Sequences

mercredi 17 février 2021 par Kate Wong — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

Researchers extracted DNA from fossils that are more than a million years old, illuminating the origins of the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammoth -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American