Lennette Newell's new book is a unique fact-filled photographic gem packed with beautiful images accompanied by detailed ...

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Summary: Using high-speed videography and automated computer-vision pose estimation, the research team discovered that ...

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During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation: the ...

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.