Fossil apes and human evolution
Humans diverged from apes (chimpanzees, specifically) toward the end of the Miocene ~9.3 million to 6.5 million years ago. Understanding…
Data in paper about Swedish schoolchildren come under fire
Pediatrician and epidemiologist Jonas Ludvigsson of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute has been a staunch defender of his country’s unorthodox coronavirus policies.…
Protecting China’s finless porpoise
Letters Qi Yan1,*, Yunhong Hu2,3 1School of Tourism and Social Administration, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing, China. 2School of Landscape Architecture,…
Tracing orbital images on ultrafast time scales
Electron dynamics in time and space Following molecular excitation and electron transfer processes in time and space within a single…
Life could use oxygen long before it was abundant
Summary The first organisms to “breathe” oxygen—or at least use it—appeared 3.1 billion years ago, according to a new genetic…
C. elegans discriminates colors to guide foraging
A new way to “see” color Color perception is an important aspect of the way many organisms navigate their world.…
First Brazilian-made satellite watches the Amazon
Summary Brazil’s first entirely home-built satellite, the Aamazonia-1, was successfully launched from a base in India, joining the fleet of…
First in place may not be the winner
The human brain matures more slowly than the brains of nonhuman primates. A key question is to what extent the…