Articles by Jim Daley

How a robber baron and an eccentric inventor solved a millennia-old question about horses.

The function of early hominins’ enlarged brow ridges, and their reduction in size in Homo sapiens, have puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades.

From the difficulty of tracking rare populations to the danger of poachers exploiting distribution data, the complications of studying endangered species require creative solutions from researchers.

With samples taken from the crust of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, researchers have discovered where some of the oceans’ dissolved organic carbon winds up.

Lanternfish evolution provides unique insights into how deep-sea species might respond to commercial fishing.

The test can pick up several types of cancer, including pancreatic and ovarian, years before symptoms appear.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2018 issue of The Scientist.

By combining experimental data with computer models, researchers were able to predict a pathogen’s evolution toward more virulence.

During the last ice age, there wasn’t much plant matter to eat on northern steppes, but herbivorous woolly mammoths were abundant. How did they survive?

Doctors treated the fetus, who has alpha thalassemia major, with cells from her mother’s bone marrow.

Specialists from the state’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks are working to determine what creature a rancher shot and killed.

Robert Ryan was forced to resign from the University of Dundee in 2016 following an investigation of misconduct.

Ornithologists tagged 27 juvenile birds to track the way they use updrafts of air heated by the sun to migrate over long distances.

Medical groups have criticized the legislation, which will give terminal patients access to experimental treatments, as dangerous and unnecessary.