In honor of a slew of new results coming from NASA’s Curiosity rover, here’s a two-minute simulation of our current best-bet for how the martian environment has evolved over the past 4... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
This rare bat is only known from a handful of collected animals on a single mountain on a single Polynesian island. Species name: Fijian monkey-faced bat ( Mirimiri acrodonta ), the only member of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
I really like chickens. They are fascinating, beautiful, unbelievably diverse, complicated birds. I’m academically interested in them. Oh, and we should probably stop eating them. While in... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Over the past few years, I’ve taught a humanities class for college freshmen, and among the required readings is the “ Stream of Thought ” section of William James’s classic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The female and male of Liropus minusculus, a new species of skeleton shrimp discovered off California. The female symbol seems to have mysteriously been repulsed by the male symbol in this image.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Want to know when the Anthropocene started exactly? It will only cost an entirely revamped scientific effort in archaeology, ecology and paleontology, among other disciplines, at an unprecedented... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
We’re number two! The United States is home to 1,278 species at risk of extinction — the second-highest count worldwide — according to the latest update of the International Union... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The ability to tell individual faces apart was long thought to be exclusive to large-brained mammals. But in recent years a number of studies have shown that, in fact, some wasps can facially... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Another ancient genome, another mystery. DNA gleaned from a 400,000-year-old femur from Spain has revealed an unexpected link between Europe’s hominin inhabitants of the time and a cryptic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com