(Reuters) - In a scene that could open the film "Snakes on a Jet Ski," New Jersey animal control workers have set traps to snare a reported 20-foot-long serpent slithering through the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
July 21 is verdict day in the infamous Scopes "Monkey" Trial of 1925. The verdict came in from a jury in Dayton, Tenn., that John Thomas Scopes had committed the crime of teaching evolution to... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Modern birds, long thought to have arisen only after the dinosaurs perished, turn out to have lived alongside them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
“Wheat P1210892” by Copyright (c) 2007 David Monniaux – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Yesterday scientitsts announced in a quartet of papers in the... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Some biologists extrapolate findings from rodent studies of epigenetic inheritance to humans, but others remain skeptical -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coffee cooperatives had been lobbying for the approval after the government said it would no longer allow farmers to use another product, endolsulfan, to prevent the beetle from damaging crops -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A pair of nesting bald eagles have been found on San Clemente Island off the Southern California coast, the National Park Service said, marking the latest step in their comeback from near extinction -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A preliminary map of the bread wheat genome includes the locations of more than 75,000 genes. Cynthia Graber reports -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com