I think we can all agree that dogs are great at everything. Except being bad friends, they're terrible at that. They're especially great at having jobs, and increasingly, researchers are realising... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A recent solution to the "prisoner's dilemma," a classic game theory scenario, has created new puzzles in evolutionary biology -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A recent solution to the "prisoner's dilemma," a classic game theory scenario, has created new puzzles in evolutionary biology -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
During the upper Palaeolithic (that is, between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago), prehistoric people in Europe and Asia (and elsewhere) depicted the animals they saw in thousands of piece of cave art. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In addition to fuel, nectar from various plant species contains chemical compounds that reduce the numbers of a common gut parasite in bumblebees. Christopher Intagliata reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A reexamination of museum mastodon specimens provides evidence that that last ones were gone from what's called the Beringia region well before any humans showed up. Emily Schwing... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
I'm a big fan of palaeognaths - the terrestrial bird group that includes the mostly big, flightless ratites and the chicken-sized, flight-capable tinamous. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The number of imperiled wolves found only in the American Southwest climbed to 109 in 2014, marking the fourth consecutive year that the population of Mexican gray wolves has risen by at least 10... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The fossils, more than 160 million years old, preserve a tree-climber and a tunnel-digger that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com