Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle. Their need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but ...
Plants that use animals to disperse their seeds can find themselves in a pickle: They need to make fruit tasty enough to entice the local fauna, but t...
After a hurricane or earthquake, people often band together and cooperate to deal with the recovery. And were not the only species that becomes more c...
In the day of the dinosaur, insects had wingspans of nearly 2.5 feet. So why are today's bugs so puny? According to researchers at U.C. Santa Cruz, we...
City kids have smorgasbord of food choices. But they also face food allergies more than do their country cousins. Researchers mapped food allergies in...
This is Scientific Americans' Sixty-Second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? Vampire spiders, as the name suggests, like blood. And t...
Sometimes women and men break a nail working on a tough task. Because our keratin claws are no match for the club-like appendages of a critter called ...
Some dinosaurs were really huge, and now we may have a better way to estimate just how heavy these giants were. Researchers have developed a method to...
This is Scientific American's 60 seconds science. I'm Kellen Horgon. This will just take a minute. Have you ever wondered what happens to mosquitos in...
This is Scientific Americans 60 second science, I am John Matson. Were just hours away from the last transit of Venus until the year 2117. A transit i...
