The newly discovered Himalayan forest thrush looks a great deal like the alpine thrush, but its far silkier song stylings gave it away as a potential new species. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Although scientists have intensively studied household pests, almost nothing has been done to survey everyone else—and everyone else turns out to be the silent majority -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A tiny primate, the marmoset, appears to process pitch perception the same way we do, implying that the ability evolved in a common ancestor at least 40 million years ago. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Ant colonies work without central control. Knowing how they do this might help us understand other systems that have no leader, from brains to the Internet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Ant colonies work without central control. Knowing how they do this might help us understand other systems that have no leader, from brains to the Internet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In his spare time, D. Allan Drummond, an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, fuses art and science to create lifelike trilobite... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In his spare time, D. Allan Drummond, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, fuses art and science to create lifelike trilobite... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A new report on a massacre of hunter–gatherers in Africa is consistent with the claim that war, far from being an inborn trait that evolved millions of years ago, is a recent cultural invention -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com