Archaeology

Russian find suggests Neanderthals died out earlier than was thought.

Fossils suggest that the solitary nature of modern marsupials is not inherited from their ancestors.

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?

Introducing animal analogues of their extinct cousins might help repair otherwise irreparable ecosystem damage. David Biello 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

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

The Long Island search for victims of a suspected serial killer has relied on aerial imaging as well as old-fashioned manpower