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For animals such as fish and insects that can’t control their body temperature, heat waves could be particularly detrimental.

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It turns out that the chuckles of humans and great apes follow similar rhythms, with regular timing between their laughs, a ...

A new study by an international research team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Max Planck Institute for ...

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