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Preservationists Fight to Save Rare Albino Redwood Tree in California

jeudi 13 mars 2014 — Biology, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution

A Whale of a Find: Fossil Sheds Light on Cetacean Sonar's Origin

mercredi 12 mars 2014 — More Science, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology

Elephants Recognize the Voices of Their Enemies

mardi 11 mars 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution

African elephants can distinguish human languages, genders and ages associated with danger. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Exploring Nature in 1914 [Slide Show]

samedi 8 mars 2014 — Web Exclusives, More Science, History of Science, Evolution, Dinosaurs

A short trip down the natural history corridor of the Scientific American Archives from a century ago -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Did Dark Matter Kill the Dinosaurs?

vendredi 7 mars 2014 — More Science, Evolution, Dinosaurs, Space, Astrophysics, Space Exploration

The solar system's periodic passage through a "dark disk" on the galactic plane could trigger comet bombardments that would cause mass extinctions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Free the Elephants and Orcas in Captivity [Editorial]

jeudi 6 mars 2014 — The Science Agenda, More Science, Everyday Science, Society & Policy, Evolution, Evolutionary Biology

Such large, intelligent animals suffer when stuffed in a zoo -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Algae in Glass Cases Could Determine Frackingâ€™s Toll

jeudi 6 mars 2014 — More Science, Biology, Everyday Science, Society & Policy, Energy & Sustainability, Environment, Ecology, Evolution, Health

Tiny diatoms would add precision to the ongoing efforts to measure the natural gas boom’s effects on water quality -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

"Game Face" Evolved as Plea for Help

mercredi 5 mars 2014 — Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Psychology, Thought & Cognition

The determination on children's faces as they struggled with a difficult task was not observed in chimpanzees involved in the same study, suggesting that the expression is an evolutionary trait -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Famous Fossil Bed in China Yields Feathered and Bucktoothed Dinos, Gliding Mammals and a Pterosaur

mercredi 5 mars 2014 — Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Dinosaurs, Evolutionary Biology

The fossil-rich layers date from the period when dinosaurs and birds split from a common ancestor -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Hell yes: Komodo dragons!!! (again)

mercredi 5 mars 2014 — More Science, Biology, Evolution, Archaeology & Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology

What with all the monitor-themed goodness around these parts lately (see links below), it seems only fitting that I provide a re-vamped, substantially updated version of this Tet Zoo ver 2 classic... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American