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All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...

In this interview, Laura Spinney discusses how Proto-Indo-European spread through migration, social change, and population ...

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Every evolution in software development has reduced the friction between an idea and a deployable application. AI may remove ...

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Julian Ahrends, ADvendio's CTO, takes a look at how agentic AI is impacting the ad tech ecosystem... For years, AI adoption ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Warwick shows that humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and ...

Is there really such a thing as human nature? The answer lies between two old extremes, and getting it right shapes how we face AI, authoritarianism, and climate.

Humans are not the only primates that laugh. Chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans all produce laughter, but scientists have long wondered how those vocalizations changed over millions of ...