Wild chimpanzee mothers hand tools to infants, footage reveals teaching in action
Camera-trap footage from Senegal shows adult chimpanzees handing tools and fruit to infants in what researchers interpret as a form ...
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Why Collaborative Climate Research Keeps Falling Short of Transforming Adaptation
A new essay argues that engaged research approaches such as co-production hold promise for transformative climate adaptation but remain held ...
Adolescents Learn to Read Hidden Motives Behind Other People’s Choices
A preregistered study of 127 adolescents aged 10 to 20 shows that young people infer latent motives such as greed ...
The evolutionary accessibility of cultural fitness landscapes
A theoretical model shows that modular, collaborative search of adaptive landscapes can outperform full searches but only above a complexity-dependent ...
Bird Song Sharing Declines With Distance, Meta-Analysis Finds
A meta-analysis of 58 studies found that birds generally share more songs with nearby individuals, but the strength of the ...
Orangutan Childhoods Reveal a Deeper Culture Than We Ever Imagined
A twelve-year study of wild Sumatran orangutans reveals that juveniles acquire five to six times more knowledge from social observation ...
Drone Footage Captures Gray Whale Calves Learning Foraging Tricks From Their Mothers
Drone observations off Oregon suggest gray whale calves imitate their mothers' foraging tactics, providing the strongest evidence yet of social ...
Why Farmers Keep—or Abandon—Soil Health Practices: It’s About People, Not Just Soil
A qualitative study of Nebraska farmers shows that peer influence, land tenure, farming traditions, and on-farm experimentation shape whether soil ...
Why the Fine Print of Overimitation Experiments May Be Shaping What We Think Children Learn
A new perspective article argues that inconsistent task designs, coding schemes, and experimental setups are limiting what scientists can reliably ...
Oxytocin in the Brain’s Septum Lets Mice Learn Safe Foods From Friends
New research in PLOS Biology shows that oxytocin receptor signaling in the dorsal lateral septum is essential for mice to ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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