Project Nim, a documentary film directed by James Marsh, is the story of scientist Herb Terrace and his experiment—initiated in December, 1973—to teach sign language to a chimpanzee named Nim. It is ...

Chimpanzees are our closest living ancestors, however now researchers say, despite not being able to speak they have a complicated communication system. According to a new study, chimpanzees use ...

It's never been easy for fishermen in England's southwest to make a living, but now they face a competitor: around 200,000 ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - There are many kinds of laughter. People may guffaw at a joke. They may giggle ...

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如果你现在放眼欧洲西部，就会发现很难找到能够避开高温的地区。 European farmers are still counting the cost of last year's drought, which saw plummetin ...

New leader of the National Academy of Sciences Neil Shubin warns: ‘a society that loses science loses the future’.

Exploring these differences formed the crux of a new study that documented laughing patterns between primates — a very ...