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Researcher Frans de Waal shows that apes (and humans) get along better than we thought
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Close Encounters of the Sneaky Kind
When it comes to mating, the brawny guy is supposed to get the girl, but biologists are finding that small, stealthy suitors do just fine
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It took Margaret Mead to understand the two nations separated by a common language
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Research suggests they fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
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In the former Soviet Union, “rad rangers” are racing to find lost radiation devices before terrorists can turn them into “dirty bombs”
The 5,000-plus-year-old Neolithic man discovered a decade ago is telling scientists how he lived and died
Following the Track of the Cat
The Bushmen of Namibia are so good at reading the language of footprints they can tell what a leopard did the day before they started pursuing it
Easing the nation’s growing traffic congestion has experts all backed up
WARNING: Words fill Anu Garg’s dreams, and waking hours too. He shares his favorites on the Web with thousands
According to advertising guru James Twitchell, every symbol, from Alka-Seltzer’s Speedy to the Energizer Bunny, plants powerful notions of who we are
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A Smithsonian anthropologist applies his expertise to cases of missing children and disaster victims
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Over the centuries, visionary mathematicians laid the foundation for how we view life’s gambles
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A Social Divide Written in Stone
Archaeological research at Cliff Palace resumes after 80 years. Surprises are the order of the day
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Darwin believed expressions of emotion reveal the unity of humans and their continuity with animals
At a small hospital in Vermont, nurses practice medicine as an art, marshaling compassion and skill in equal measure
In the ever-expanding field of anthropology, the Smithsonian still excels in research and exhibition
What’s in a Name? Sometimes More Than Meets the Eye
Jokes, puns, even insults when it comes to deciding what to call newly discovered species, scientists don’t always go by the book
Let’s Hear It for the Lowly Sound Bite!
In which it is amply demonstrated that the sound bite, long a pariah of pundits and pooh-bahs, is really a help meet to man
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