From a few fragments out of a collection of 23-century-old bamboo strips, historians have pieced together what they say is the world's oldest example of a multiplication table in base 10.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
“ What does woman want? ” Freud once whined. Turns out quite a few women want fantasy sex with T. rex, Sasquatch or a boar-headed god. That, at any rate, is the implication of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The bark of the Pacific Yew tree which yields taxol, one of the world's bestselling anticancer drugs (Image: Wikipedia Commons) This is part 2 of a series of posts delving into the fundamental... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Mysterious episodes of genetic duplication in our great ape ancestors may have paved the way for human evolution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A cartoon representation of part of the protein PCSK9, a significant new target for reducing cholesterol that until now has thwarted efforts to drug it (Image: Wikipedia Commons) This is part 1 of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Scientific fraud almost led to this tiny owl’s extinction. Species name: Forest owlet ( Heteroglaux blewitti ). Known locally as dongar dudaa. [More] -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Prions are the infective agents that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Mad Cow Disease in humans. All prions affect the brain or neural tissues and are currently untreatable.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com