Author and self-described fossil fanatic Brian Switek talks about his new book Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
A few brief reports about international science and technology from Canada to Kenya, including one about how humans thousands of years ago in what is now Argentina butchered and presumably ate giant... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
More than 100 millennia ago, people were roasting tubers—a practice that fueled their bodies and may have aided migrations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Confronting climate change, cultures with intensive, specialized land use were vulnerable. Those that endured cultivated multiple crops and helped edible rainforest species prosper -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Millipedes, often blind, have come up with clever physical signals to ward off sexual advances from members of wrong species. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com