Tom Metcalfe
Did Neanderthals create art? Engraved bone raises questions about human ancestor creativity
Examples of artistic expression in the archaeological record that reshape what we know about the cognitive abilities of Neanderthals ...
Deadly COVID mutation wild card: Frightening lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu recovery
The influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic mutated into variants, much like the novel coronavirus has done in the ...
Human blood suckers: How nature’s tiniest killer developed its deadly diet
Although most of the roughly 3,500 mosquito species don’t feed on human blood, the Aedes aegypti is one of the worst. Its ...
Fighting Zika with drones and genetically engineered mosquitoes
At Rutgers University ... engineers are developing “skeetercopters” that can detect and map mosquito-infested sites from the air — and douse ...
