Under the right circumstances, indiscriminate mating with both males and females can enhance animals’ evolutionary success -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Evidence of the ancient humans was limited to a cave in Siberia. But now scientists have found genetic remains of the Denisovans in China. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Charcoal dating back nearly 2,000 years show the ancestral Puebloans used the ice for drinking water during droughts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Chipmunklike animals that lived among the dinosaurs appear to have been social creatures, which suggests that sociality arose in mammals earlier than scientists thought. Christopher Intagliata... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one, from the dormant volcano Llullaillaco in Chile, about a mouse that is the highest-dwelling mammal ever... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The concave-eared torrent frog's unusual ear anatomy lets it hear high-frequency calls, which gives a mating advantage to the littler males that sing soprano. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from the United Arab Emirates about the the first interplanetary mission by an Arab country. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com