Jonathan, a giant tortoise who has lived on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena for almost two centuries, could hold the key to a longer life.

Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) are exceptionally long-lived. We sequenced the genome and methylome of Jonathan, a 194-year-old Aldabra, to explore the molecular basis of his longevit...

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

Butterfly wing patterns and flight dynamics work in tandem to create powerful visual illusions that confuse predators, potentially representing one of the most successful visual defence strategies in ...

Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study finds

Cultural learning permeates human skill and knowledge acquisition. To understand its importance for nonhuman apes, we analyzed just under 7000 records of behavioral bouts of social and individual lear...

Across many human languages, consonants carry more lexical information than vowels. During speech segmentation, humans, unlike nonhuman primates, rely more on consonant than vowel patterns, despite vo...

The PsychAD Consortium investigates the biological mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease, related dementias, and serious mental ...

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L...

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia

Xenocortication with human neurons enables circuit- and behaviour-level analysis of neurodevelopment in mice.

Alt: Beaker (long-suffering science Muppet) confronts a fire in the Muppet Show lab with his characteristic skill and poise.

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm?

Learn how scientists are using ancient fossils and machine learning to reconstruct ancient soundscapes.

The woolly rhinoceros was a prominent Ice Age megafaunal species, and there is limited knowledge regarding its origin and responses to past glacial cycles. We sequenced 29 mitochondrial and 14 nuclear...

AI model AlphaGenome forecasts the consequences of altering every single DNA letter in the human genome.

Objects found in a cave in southwestern China suggest that these enigmatic ancient humans were accomplished hunters.

Identification and proteomic analysis of bone fragments and teeth from an excavation in Southwest China provide insight into the evolution and phenotype of Denisovans and fill a geographical gap in th...

Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.

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