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Apparently our society is so advanced that we can tell who invented what just by looking at animals. The survival techniques of West African chimpanzees have revealed that the first human weapons may have been developed by women.
The use of spears and axes to hunt and kill is commonly thought to have been pioneered among […]
A germ that kills males has triggered a vicious cycle of increasing female promiscuity and male sexual exhaustion in a species of butterfly, scientists report. The male-killing bacteria known as Wolbachia are extremely widespread in insects, found in more than one-fifth of species. The germs can turn males to females and cause infected females to […]
A new spacecraft is being readied for another trip to Mars to excavate the planet’s icy dirt, seeking a sunlit habitat where life might have been in the distant past. It will mark the first time since the famed life-seeking Viking missions 30 years ago that NASA has sent a tool to dig beneath the […]
Denise Caruso was one of the top technology writers of the 80s and 90s, hanging out with the A-list digerati and penning an influential column for The New York Times. Then in 2000 she dropped out, upset by the excess and bombast of the first Internet boom, to launch a small non-profit group in San […]
It is the world’s biggest flower, and maybe the stinkiest, too. Now scientists have used genetic analysis to solve the long-standing mystery of the lineage of the rafflesia flower, known for its blood-red bloom measuring three feet wide and its stench of rotting flesh.
Writing in the journal Science on Thursday, a team of researchers said […]