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  1. Anthropology

    Lost-and-Found Fossil Tot: Neandertal baby rises from French archive

    The approximately 40,000-year-old skeleton of a Neandertal baby, filed and forgotten in a French museum for nearly 90 years, has been recovered by an anthropologist.

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  2. Humans

    From the September 3, 1932, issue

    INSECT LARVAE MAKE MOSAIC JEWELRY Manufacturers of modern jewelry might well turn to the larvae of the caddis fly for effective models for small containers–tiny perfume bottles, say, or lipstick cases. These water-dwelling “worms” build mosaic coverings for the little cylindrical houses they spin for themselves, taking bits of sand and gravel from the streambed […]

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  3. Art of the Gene

    Artworks and essays inspired by current genetics research are featured at the Web site accompanying the traveling art exhibition known as “Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics.”