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The Life and Legacy of the Dinosaur Baron

The Dinosaur Baron of Transylvania

A maverick aristocrat's ideas about dinosaur evolution turn out to have been decades ahead of their time

Copping a Latitude: Genetics Supports Idea Cultural Interaction Was More East to West Than North to South

The finding supports a case made by Jared Diamond and others that migration along the same lines of latitude in Eurasia promoted the sharing of crops, animals and technology, but that wide variations in climate found in the New World's north-to-south orientation hindered cultural exchanges...

Electrolyte Balancers Set Stage for Multicellularity

Comparative genomics shows that sodium channel and pump proteins evolved just before multicellular animals arose, implying that control of electrolyte balancing was a crucial event in life's history...

MIND in Pictures: Illuminating Thoughts

New Insights into Obesity

As obesity becomes a global health threat, scientists are discovering new details about how this complex affliction affects the body--and about the many factors that bring it on. In a partnership with theVisualMD , here is a look at the fascinating details behind this common condition...

A Graphic Look at Obesity--Inside and Out

A new detailed picture of the biological consequences of the global weight problem, as visualized by the scientifically tuned illustrations of theVisualMD

Hair Sample Yields First Complete Genome of an Aboriginal Australian

1920s hair sample reveals Aboriginal Australians' explorer origins.

Eternal Vigilance Fingers the Flu

The influenza virus is hiding and changing in animal populations. Virologist Ab Osterhaus explains how that could make it more lethal and how we have to keep a constant eye on its development...

Mammoth Hemoglobin Could Provide Cold Comfort

Researchers recreated mammoth hemoglobin and found it delivers oxygen at ultralow temperatures, a finding that could inform blood substitutes for therapeutic hypothermia procedures. Sophie Bushwick reports...

What Will the Next Influenza Pandemic Look Like?

Predicting pandemics might still be impossible, but with millions of lives at stake, researchers are using the latest science and lessons from history to best prepare for the next big one...

Autism in Another Ape

An extraordinary baby bonobo is a rare case study for autism researchers

Recommended: The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

Books and recommendations from Scientific American

Upright and Hairless Make Better Long-Distance Hunters

If an early human wanted to chase down prey, it really helped to be upright and to lose the overheating body hair. Karen Hopkin reports

Amber Inclusions Showcase Prehistoric Feathers

Fossils could help to reveal how dino feathers first evolved.

PiggyDemic

Become part of a social-networking effort to understand and fight viral threats

Nile Crocodile Found to Comprise Two Different Species

Discovery has implications for conservation and management of the iconic species.

The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics

In his new book, Lee Alan Dugatkin tells the tale of one of the world's first modern international celebrities, whose writings shared the common thread of a scientific law of mutual aid, which guided the evolution of all life on Earth...

Baby Makes Daddy Lose Testosterone

Men in their 20s had lower levels of testosterone after fathering children than they did before becoming dads. Christopher Intagliata reports

The Eyes Have It

Eye gaze is critically important to social primates such as humans. Maybe that is why illusions involving eyes are so compelling