For a long time, scientists judged animal intelligence by how closely it resembled human behavior. That left a lot unnoticed.

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Why is most music 120 BPM? A new study discovers a universal communication tempo of 2 hertz shared by fireflies, crickets, and humans due to neural resonance.

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that lobsters feel pain, with the crustaceans seemingly responding to ...

A massive study of ancient DNA from nearly 16,000 people across more than 10,000 years in West Eurasia reveals that natural ...

Nearly 800,000 years ago, early humans gathered along the shores of a lush lake in what is now northern Israel. Here, they ...

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