Coronavirus: Know the enemy
Covid – or any other foe – is best beaten with fact-based strategy, not rumor. So wade right in… Nikhil Menon In many cases, the new coronavirus has us either…
Study of primate vowel sounds pushes speech evolution back 27 million years
New evidence suggests that the dawn of speech came before the time of our last common ancestor with Old World monkeys
How plants can tell time – without a brain
Different organs peak at different times, producing a steady, 24-hour pattern
Of animal memory and Alzheimer’s
Other creatures replay their memories to make assessments, a revelation that has implications for humans, too
Tiny, living stones of the sea
How limestone-covered algae sway global climate — and how their fate may shift as the oceans acidify