Deforestation of the butterflies' Mexican wintering site is eclipsed by the threat posed by the continual loss of habitat to crops and pesticides in the U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
While on a family holiday recently I visited Dan yr Ogof, the famous National Show Cave for Wales. Besides being interesting for the expected geological and speleological reasons, Dan yr Ogof is set... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
“It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.”—Warren Ellis You can find some pretty weird things when you go poking around in holes in remote parts of the globe. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A juvenile tick trapped in a 15-million- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains a bacterium that could be the oldest documented ancestor of the microbe that causes Lyme disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Sometimes research into one question reveals the answer to another. In July 2012 Catherine Hughes and Julie Broken-Brow, students at the University of Queensland in Australia, were in Papua New... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com