Complex Language: Scientists find an ‘alphabet’ in whale songs
In 2020, a team of marine biologists and computer scientists joined forces to analyze the click-clacking songs of sperm whales, the gray, block-shaped...
Circle of life: Chimpanzees go through menopause too
Susan Alberts, a biologist at Duke University who was not involved in the research, said that she would have been skeptical of such a claim in the...
Neural networks: Human brain has dizzying array of mystery cells
NEW YORK: An international team of scientists has mapped the human brain in much finer resolution than ever before. The brain atlas, a $375 million...
Origin of Life: Humanity’s ancestors nearly died out, genetic study...
They point to a drastic change to the climate that occurred around that time as the cause.
The Human Cycle: A theory of childbirth’s evolution: Not what you’re...
And babies with big heads could get stuck in a tight birth canal during delivery, threatening the lives of mothers and babies alike.
Scientists debut lab models of human embryos
“We know the basics, but the very fine details we just don’t know,” said Jacob Hanna, a developmental biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science...
Journey to the blue yonder: How did birds first take off?
Far from crazy, feathered dinosaurs have become a well-established fact, thanks largely to a trove of remarkable fossils that have been unearthed in...
Paradise found: Oldest known DNA offers glimpse of a once-lush Arctic
The discovery came after two decades of scientific gambles and frustrating setbacks.