Smithsonian Magazine • 16th April 2021 In a Warming World, Heat Interferes With Sex Determination in These Australian Lizards Scientists have discovered how hot temperatures override chromosomes in bearded dragons
Scientific American • 21st October 2020 Vicious Woodpecker Battles Draw an Avian Audience Biologists who study acorn woodpeckers’ power struggles are not the only ones watching—so are rival woodpecker groups
Scientific American • 21st May 2020 Bumblebees Bite Plants to Force Them to Flower (Seriously) The behavior could be an evolutionary adaptation that lets bees forage more easily
Scientific American • 17th December 2019 Ancient "Chewing Gum" Reveals a 5,700-Year-Old Microbiome Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed
Scientific American • 5th December 2019 Now Hear This: New Fossils Reveal Early Ear-Bone Evolution A change in chewing led to the emergence of the mammalian middle ear
Scientific American • 21st November 2019 What Makes a Song? It's the Same Recipe in Every Culture Humans everywhere bring together pitch, tempo and the like in a similar fashion
Scientific American • 17th June 2019 Domestication Made Dogs' Facial Anatomy More Fetching to Humans Wolves lack the muscles that allow dogs to raise their eyebrows and make puppy dog eyes
Scientific American • 4th April 2019 Cats Recognize Their Own Names—Even If They Choose to Ignore Them Domestic felines distinguish between their monikers and similar-sounding words, new research shows
Scientific American • 26th February 2019 Did Crawling Critters Leave These Cracks? The Answer Could Rewrite Evolutionary History Researchers say they found evidence life began moving 2.1 billion years ago, but that contentious conclusion is far from certain
Scientific American • 15th February 2019 Ancient Earth's Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction When our planet’s magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it
The Scientist Magazine® • 1st July 2018 Why Are Modern Humans Relatively Browless? The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.
The Scientist Magazine® • 23rd May 2018 Animals’ Embryonic Organizer Now Discovered in Human Cells The finding confirms that a cluster of cells that directs the fate of other cells in the developing embryo is evolutionarily conserved across the animal kingdom.
The Scientist Magazine® • 4th May 2018 Monkey Hybrids Challenge Assumptions of What a Species Is A study finds two species of guenon monkeys in Tanzania have been mating and producing fertile offspring for generations.
The Scientist Magazine® • 18th April 2018 How Kidney Cancer Evolves Renal cell carcinoma tumors have three different evolutionary fates, each associated with specific clinical outcomes.
The Scientist Magazine® • 1st April 2018 Infected Ants Chemically Attract Workers to Destroy Them Social insects kill infected individuals for the benefit of the colony—and now a study has shown how they know who’s sick.
