Monkeys Provide Clues to How Tool Use Developed (Published 2015)
transcript ScienceTake | If I Had a HammerResearchers are studying how monkeys use stones as a way of understanding the evolution of the use of tools. This could be how it all started. Before you can make a stone tool, you have to be able to use a stone. Scientists from the University of Georgia analyzed the motion of capuchin monkeys in Brazil to learn more about what kind of dexterity with tools
Building a Face, and a Case, on DNA (Published 2015)
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going. Nonetheless, the police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect. Rather than an artist’s rendering based on witness descriptions, the face was generated by a computer relying solely on DNA found at the scene o
A New Theory on How Neanderthal DNA Spread in Asia (Published 2015)
Chinese passengers wait on a train platform at the Beijing Railway Station. Researchers have discovered that Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of Asians at two points in history, giving this population an extra infusion of Neanderthal DNA.Credit...European Pressphoto Agency In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with th
Shedding Their Secrets (Published 2015)
The hellbender salamander lives on the bottom of mountain streams.Credit...Kevin M. Stohlgren/The Orianne Society You wouldn’t think hellbenders would be hard to find: The huge salamanders, the biggest amphibians in North America, can grow up to 30 inches long. Yet hellbenders make themselves scarce, living on the bottoms of mountain streams, lurking under massive rocks. As a result, locating hell
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