Humans Interbred With Hominins on Multiple Occasions, Study Finds
By CARL ZIMMER The interbreeding may have given modern humans better immunity to pathogens, according to the authors […]
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Elwyn L. Simons, Primate Specialist Who Discovered Early Human Forebears, ...
By MARGALIT FOX A scientist concerned with both ancient primates and living ones, he was described as having […]
Wind Farm May Be Built Off Long Island
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG The Interior Department and its Bureau of Ocean Energy Management are moving toward auctioning a […]
Seduced by Junk Food, Storks Are Opting Not to Migrate
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Some of their favorite menu items, researchers found, were rotten fish, leftover chicken and […]
A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet night […]
Trees Deal With Climate Change Better Than Expected
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG A new study found that forests adapted to hotter temperatures by contributing less carbon dioxide […]
Solving the Tully Monster’s Cold Case
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A team of researches say they have solved the identity of a creature whose […]
Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet
By AMY HARMON Molecular biologists and neuroscientists are tweeting with the hashtag #ASAPbio in protest of a system […]
Fairy Circles, Long a Mystery in Africa, Now Found in ...
By RACHEL NUWER The latest findings add to a hypothesis that competition for scarce water causes honeycomb-like patterns. […]
The Unfolding of Polio
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR In The Times, it began with an 1857 article on graduation at New-York Medical College. […]