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A longer life expectancy might have allowed members of the genus Homo to grow taller than earlier australopithecines, researchers propose
December 05, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
An articulated hand found in southern Utah complicates the story of North America's feathery, beaked oviraptorosaurs
December 04, 2012
| By Brian Switek
After 99 days in space, the museum's new jumping spider made it only five days before dying of natural causes
December 04, 2012
| By Leah Binkovitz
Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
January 03, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Health and medical mobile apps are booming. But what happens when they shift from tracking data to diagnosing diseases?
December 04, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
A new advance in lighting could soon bring a silent, consistent glow that's easy on the eyes to an office near you
December 04, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Senility isn’t the answer; IQ scores are increasing with each generation. In a new book, political scientist James Flynn explains why
December 03, 2012
| By Megan Gambino
An offering of books, bumper stickers, artwork and other knickknacks for the hominid enthusiast on your gift list
December 03, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
A new book argues that dinosaur reconstructions, which stretch skin over bone, are bound to be inaccurate and imagines what the creatures may have looked with more fat, feathers and accessory adornments
November 30, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Scientists examine what chemicals make the Asian fruit smell like "turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock"
November 30, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Born in desperation and long mocked, the social media platform has become a popular research and intelligence-gathering tool.
November 30, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
After decades of uncertainty, a new study confirms that both polar ice sheets are melting
November 29, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Were these Late Cretaceous dinosaurs just the culmination of an evolutionary trend towards ever-larger body size or was something else at work?
November 29, 2012
| By Brian Switek
And the odds of spinning a penny are even more skewed in one direction, but which way?
November 30, 2012
| By Dan Lewis
Follow along as we award the best innovators of the year
November 28, 2012
| By Brian Wolly
Was the early bird Archaeopteryx more of a glider than a flier?
November 28, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Scientists argue that grasping hands and feet, good vision and other primate adaptations emerged because the mammals plucked fruits from the ends of tree branches
November 28, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
The newly discovered quasar spews an amount of energy equivalent to more than two million suns
November 28, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
Retailers are mining personal data to learn everything about you so they can help you help yourself to their products.
November 27, 2012
| By Randy Rieland
Principles from the weather models that predicted Sandy a week ahead of time might be used to warn about the flu before it arrives
November 27, 2012
| By Joseph Stromberg
A set of partial jaws hold an important place in the history of South American paleontology, but what sort of dinosaur do they represent?
November 27, 2012
| By Brian Switek
Just the title — "Transplanting Beavers by Airplane and Parachute" — of this 1950 wildlife management report raises questions
November 26, 2012
| By Heather Goss,
Air & Space magazine
Gigantspinosaurus had enormous shoulder spikes, but what were these ornaments used for?
November 26, 2012
| By Brian Switek
A hominid that lived in Europe more than a million years ago might have given rise to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, some anthropologists say
November 26, 2012
| By Erin Wayman
Stegosaurus is immediately recognizable for its prominent plates, but why did these structures actually evolve?
November 23, 2012
| By Brian Switek
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