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Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They were in search of a fern called Tmesipteris oblanceolata. Standing just a few...

Music baffled Charles Darwin. Humanity’s ability to produce and enjoy melodies, he wrote in 1874, “must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed.”All human societies made...

By November 2021, nearly two years after the coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, China, and spread across the world, the surprises seemed to be over. More than 4 billion people had been vaccinated against...