Youre not under arrest, despite the fact that you probably have some drugs in your pocket. Because theres a good chance your paper money contains trac...
Early modern humans didnt just chip away at stones to create their tools. They treated stone with fire in a sophisticated fashion, according to resear...
Thin plastic bags are the ultimate throwaway item. Used once to tote groceries, the thin white bags often go on to second lives as permanent pollution...
Youve given some thought to oxygen, carbon, uranium. But youve probably never mused about the element ytterbium, symbol Yb. A new study by scientists ...
Its been called the vine that ate the south. Kudzu grows so fast it can completely cover a cabin in the woods in a couple of days. The invasive plant ...
The so-called birthers cant accept that President Obama is really a natural-born American citizen. Part of whats behind this seemingly irrational beli...
A friends four year old daughter recently complained to me about how badly her mosquito bite itched. She was about to burst into tears. The fact that ...
Orchids are botany's great mimics, all in the service of getting pollinated. Some have evolved to resemble female wasps to attract males. Others produ...
This is Scientific American's 60 Seconds Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? In 1900 legendary physicist Max Planck described the way energy gets...
This is Scientific Americans Sixty-second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Poor old spleen, it never got the recognition it d...
