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
Sharks that could smell headed straight back home when taken a few miles away whereas some that had their senses of smell blocked took slower, more erratic paths to their old haunts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In the early years of the Jurassic Period, when the world was recovering from one of the worst mass extinctions on record, a modest meat-eating dinosaur from Wales helped pave the way for some of the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Researchers found a spike in mercury, which is produced by volcanoes, in ancient ocean sediments from southern France that span the time of the dinosaurs' mass extinction, lending support to the idea... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com