Human movement today is about 40 times greater than the combined movement of all wild animals - including land mammals, birds, and arthropods.

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A study uncovers shared mechanisms of foot placement in walking, highlighting the role of feedforward-feedback systems in ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

You may be familiar with the debate. Some biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists claim that several nonhuman animal species have culture. They point to two kinds of evidence to support their ...

Several imaging procedures have been developed to help diagnose diseases in humans. Examples include X-ray imaging, ...

Do insectivorous animals perceive green, caterpillar-shaped clay as a tasty meal? Ecologists sometimes use plasticine models ...

"Compositionality, in a nutshell: It's the fact that we can combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of the units," Mélissa Berthet, a researcher in ...