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Birds Heading South for the Winter Get Conflicting Directions

samedi 1er novembre 2014 — Advances, More Science, Biology, Energy & Sustainability, Ecology, Evolution

Mom and dad can give some migrating birds mixed signals about how to get home -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

New Artifact-Filled Chambers Revealed under Teotihuacan

vendredi 31 octobre 2014 — More Science, History of Science, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology

Rooms beneath the mysterious city contain jade statues, jaguar remains and thousands of other objects -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How to Win Friends and Influence Ducklings

vendredi 31 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Mind & Brain, Psychology

How should you treat your ducks? The answer is mired in duckling politics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Halloween Horrors: The Ghost Bat (aka the False Vampire Bat)

vendredi 31 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

Something ghostly and hungry flies the skies of northern Australia. Its massive white wings stand out against the darkness as it circles, searching for prey. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Mammals Might Have Slept Through Dino Destroyer

jeudi 30 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology, Space

The ability to engage in extended hibernation might be what saved ancestral mammals from extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. Karen Hopkin reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Fern Frozen in Time by Volcanic Flow Reveals Stunning Detail

jeudi 30 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology

It defies belief, but a 180 million year old fern fossil unearthed in Sweden is so exquisitely preserved that it is possible to see its cells dividing. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How Do Animals Become Zombies? - Instant Egghead

lundi 27 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Ecology, Evolution

It may sound like something straight out of a horror movie, but many animals can come under the zombie-like control of parasites. So what about humans? Scientific American editor Katherine Harmon... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Is Smell the Key To an Octopus's Heart?

samedi 25 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

We know that octopuses have awesome visual systems and super-sensitive suckers. We have even learned that they can hear. But little scientific attention has been paid to their sense of smell. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Complex Life Owes Its Existence To Parasites?

vendredi 24 octobre 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Space, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Extraterrestrial Life, Galaxies, Space Exploration

Is complex life rare in the cosmos? The idea that it could be rests on the observation that the existence of life like us – with large, energy hungry, complicated cells – may be... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

U.S. Charges South Africans in Illegal Rhino Hunting Case

vendredi 24 octobre 2014 — Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Evolution

A South African company has been indicted in Alabama for selling illegal rhinoceros hunts to Americans and secretly trafficking in the endangered animals’ horns -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American