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A new study builds on a wave of new work that is daring to suggest insects might have a form of consciousness.

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From Wrangell, Alaska, to Oatman, Arizona, you'll be surprised to see what these places looked like a century ago.

Renowned conservation biologist Dr Bibhab Kumar Talukdar, founder of Assam's biodiversity organisation Aaranyak, has been elected as a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS), one of the highest ...

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Evolutionary psychology is known for dark parts of our nature, like homicide. But it also explains prosocial behaviors, like ...

The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they bother.

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.