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One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is believing that you know everything there is to know. Even if you’re ...

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During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the ...

As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an international team of researchers, including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, has analyzed ...

It seems that from a study published in the journal Ethology, researchers observed that cats meow more frequently when greeting their male caregivers and asking for food than if their owners are ...

In a little over ten years, organoid models—miniature, lab-grown clusters of cells that imitate real organs—have transformed how we study human development and disease while accelerating drug ...

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More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...