Babies Cry With an Accent

In the first days of their lives, French infants already cry in a different way to German babies. This was the result of a study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, the Centre for Pre-language...

New Theory Sheds Light on Space Enigma

An enormous plume of dust and water spurts violently into space from the south pole of Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon. This raging eruption has intrigued scientists ever since the Cassini spacecraft provided dramatic images of the phenomenon. Now,...

Gossiping Is A Biological Imperative

In today’s New York Times, John Tierney writes that researchers believe “gossip was the great evolutionary leap that enabled human apes to live peacefully in large groups, develop moral codes, build civilizations and, eventually, sell supermarket...