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Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds

samedi 30 novembre 2013 — Evolution

Mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) at Madras Crocodile Bank, Tamil Nadu, India, with sticks on its head. What's going on here? Read on. Photo by Vladinir Dinets, from Dinets et al. (2013).... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Look into the Eyes: paleoart by Stevie Moore

samedi 30 novembre 2013 — Evolution,More Science

Suchomimus (C) Stevie Moore. Click the image to a see a larger version of each image on Moore's site. I think it’s the eyes. [More] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

This Skittered Across My Thanksgiving Table...

samedi 30 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Technology,More Science

A rare alignment of calendars brought an even rarer convergence of events at many Thanksgiving tables this week: Channukah gifts before Thanksgiving pie. And as such, this skittered across my table: ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Nothing To Gobble At: Social Cognition in Turkeys

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Mind & Brain

“For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of America…” wrote Ben Franklin in a 1784 letter to his daughter.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Thanksgiving and the Myth of the Savage Savage

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Health,More Science

The approach of Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday, has me brooding over recent scientific portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes.* When I was in grade school, my... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How China's Pet Dogs Might Save Wild Tigers

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Evolution,Health,More Science

A tiger mulls life at the Shanghai Zoo. (C) J. Patrick Fischer On the streets of Beijing, little old ladies coax even littler dogs to do their business. Some even bear the little plastic bags ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

The golden age of computational materials science gives me a disturbing feeling of d j vu

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Evolution,Technology,More Science

Graphene, a wonder material which was made by scientists using a version of Scotch tape (Image: Wikipedia) I was a mere toddler in the early 1980s when they announced the “golden age of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Have We Saved the Sharks?

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Environment,Society & Policy,Ecology,More Science,Energy & Sustainability,Biology,Everyday Science

“In China victory for wildlife conservation as citizens persuaded to give up shark fin soup.” This October 19 headline in the Washington Post was one that marine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Mushrooms Create Their Own Breeze

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — More Science,Physics,Everyday Science,Ecology,More Science,Evolution,Evolutionary Biology,Biology

Mushrooms must scatter their spores to make little mushrooms. And we've long assumed that they rely on a friendly breeze for spore spreading. But a new study shows that mushrooms can create their... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Good Microbes make Good Pets

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Mind & Brain,Space,More Science,Evolution,Health,Technology

THIS is good scicomm. Why? Well, for many reasons – good writing, good sound, good editing – but by far the most apparent, the reason most people will sit up and take note is because of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American