From world-changing inventions to discoveries that shaped our understanding the natural world, a look back at the evolution of the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Healthy ants wanted nothing to do with free-radical-rich foodstuff, but ants exposed to a pathogenic fungus sought it out, which upped their odds of survival. Christopher Intagliata reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The Gotham Coyote Project is using cameras, citizen scientists and environmental DNA to study coyotes as they move into New York City, and eventually, Long Island -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Traces of lice and lice eggs, as much as 800 years old, have been uncovered by archaeologists working in northern Chile -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The bone, which is the earliest modern humanlike finger bone ever found, could come from a number of species that were around at the time, including Homo erectus -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Pyrenees fossils suggest the Montsechia lived up to 130 million years ago and is the earliest known example of a fully submerged aquatic flowering plant -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some 95 percent of catalogued species in one family of Hawaiian land snails could already be extinct, and similar rates of invertebrate extinction could be happening around the world. Christopher... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com