Among the weirdest and most fascinating of rodents are the scalytails/scaly-tails, scaly-tailed squirrels or anomalures, properly termed Anomaluridae. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Let’s say you’re a small cell engaged in heavy manufacturing. Like most animal cells, you are coated only in a thin membrane made a double layer of fluid fat-like molecules. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Visual illusions are fun: we know with our rational mind that, for example, these lines are parallel to each other, yet they don't appear that way. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some of you will know that I'm putting together a giant textbook on the vertebrate fossil record… and, oh god, it isn't easy. If you want sneak-peeks on how things are going, please consider... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Flow sensors on the bodies of many fish act like a hydrodynamic antenna, picking up signals about the flow of water around them. Gretchen Cuda Kroen reports. ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Flow sensors on the bodies of many fishes act like a hydrodynamic antenna, picking up signals about the flow of water around them. Gretchen Cuda Kroen reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com