
Pacific Quakes Portend Little for U.S. West Coast
A series of major earthquakes have struck below the Pacific Ocean in less than a year and a half. Could the West Coast be next?

Pacific Quakes Portend Little for U.S. West Coast
A series of major earthquakes have struck below the Pacific Ocean in less than a year and a half. Could the West Coast be next?

Can Re-Wilding Work?
Introducing animal analogues of their extinct cousins might help repair otherwise irreparable ecosystem damage. David Biello reports


Editors' Roundtable: Science Conference Reports
Scientific American editors Christine Gorman, Robin Lloyd, Michael Moyer and Kate Wong talk about their recent trips to different science conferences: the meetings of the Association for Health Care Journalists, the Paleoanthropology Society, the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and an M.I.T. 150th-anniversary conference called Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything

Ancient Europeans Were Mostly Righties
Marks on fossils indicate that more than 90 percent of humans in Europe a half-million years ago were right-handed. Karen Hopkin reports

Searches for Human Remains Combine High-Tech with Low-Tech
The Long Island search for victims of a suspected serial killer has relied on aerial imaging as well as old-fashioned manpower

Early human fossils from South Africa could upend long-held view of human evolution

Giant Dino exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, or why I should not be a photojournalist

Fossil footprints of early modern humans found in Tanzania

Did Lucy's species butcher animals?

Immigration Tracked Through Desert Detritus
Discarded possessions reveal dangers of journey from Mexico into Arizona.

Are you smarter than a middle schooler? New site tracks science misconceptions

The Dead Sea Is Disappearing, but It Could Be Saved [Slide Show]
Scientists analyze sinkholes and how mixing waters might alter the sea