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A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved. By Emily Anthes Humor is deeply personal. A punchline or a pratfall that leaves one ...

There’s so much more to Baby New Year than a cute cartoon figure. See if you can guess when he was “born” and what he represents. Christmas has Santa. Easter has the bunny. And the new year has … a ...

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The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land Two fossils of ...

Like the other Nature titles, Nature Ecology & Evolution has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of professional editors, with relevant research ...

Lessons from the life sciences by Noubar Afeyan and Gary P. Pisano On November 30, 2020, Moderna Therapeutics announced that Phase III clinical trials for its messenger RNA vaccine demonstrated 95% ...