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Even tough male chimps need their moms. Chimpanzees live in a male-dominated society, where most of their valuable allies are other males. However, as young male chimpanzees become adults, they continue to maintain tight bonds with their mothers, a new study reveals. And for about one-third of them, this mother-son […]

A new and seemingly fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus has prompted more than a dozen countries to ban travel from Britain.

In a Downing Street briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the new COVID-19 strain may be up to 70 per cent more transmissible. Here’s what we know about the new coronavirus variant.

A gold miner discovered the ice age wolf in gold fields.

A plan to crisscross parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with earth-shaking machines that help map underground oil formations is drawing criticism from scientists who study the remote Alaskan wilderness.

The authors of a Nature Communications study that suggested female scientists who have female mentors have worse career outcomes, provoking social media outrage and criticism of their methods, have retracted the paper. The move comes 1 month after journal editors announced they were launching a “priority” investigation of that paper, […]