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Burying Bones of Contention: Native Americans Close to Getting Ancestral Skeleton Back

jeudi 12 mai 2016 par Zach Zorich — The Sciences, Arts & Culture, Biology, Evolution

The Kennewick Man skeleton has been deemed Native American, but a cultural question delays its burial -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Everything There Is

jeudi 12 mai 2016 par Steve Mirsky — Mind, EARTH, The Sciences, Arts & Culture, Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Math, Physics, Space

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about the necessary connections among the various ways we have of describing the universe. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Ice Age Death Trap Yields an Unexpected Carnivore

mardi 10 mai 2016 par Brian Switek — The Sciences, Evolution

Bones from Wyoming's Natural Trap Cave turn out to be those of a wolf never before found in the lower 48 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

A Fifth of Plants Risk Extinction as Farms, Logging Expand

mardi 10 mai 2016 — Sustainability, Conservation, Environment, Biology, Evolution

But new species, like a 1.5-meter carnivorous plant, are still being found -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fearsome Dinosaur-Age "Hammerhead" Reptile Ate... Plants?

lundi 9 mai 2016 par Laura Geggel, LiveScience — The Sciences, Evolution

The crocodile-size reptile lived about 242 million years ago, during the Middle Triassic period -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Strange Seaweed Rewrites the History of Green Plants

lundi 9 mai 2016 par Emma Marris, Nature magazine — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

An ancient alga developed large size and complex structure independently of other plants -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Strange Seaweed Rewrites History of Green Plants

lundi 9 mai 2016 par Emma Marris, Nature magazine — The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

Ancient alga developed large size and complex structure independently of other plants -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Farmers vs. Nomads: Whose Lingo Spread the Farthest?

lundi 9 mai 2016 par Michael Balter — Features, The Sciences, Arts & Culture, Biology, Evolution

Did the most successful family of languages in history originate in Turkey or the Pontic steppes? New evidence from DNA and evolutionary biology has only heightened the scientific disagreements -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Dragonflies Outmigrate Butterflies

vendredi 6 mai 2016 par Leila Falls, Christopher Intagliata — The Sciences, Evolution

Globe skimmer dragonflies migrate more than 15,000 kilometers, breeding with the locals as they travel and creating an interrelated global population. A dragonfly from Japan may have more in common... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American