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Female rats prefer gentler, more playful tickling than males, Bombail and his colleagues report April 15 in Biology Letters.

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

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Male primates may be larger than females partly because of pressure from rival groups, not just competition with males inside ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...

Parasitic Dinocampus coccinellae wasps lay their eggs inside spotted lady beetles (Coleomegilla maculata). The pupae hatch ...