In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have been caught on camera doing something startlingly human: treating each ...

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So we rather think that the president’s new unfavorable stance towards Israel was likely fueled by a fear that an alienated Arab world would come to thwart his ability to proceed, full bore, to foll ...

Opinion: Rachel Wasserman of Wasserman Business Law says law firms should decentralize, not consolidate, to provide good ...

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The analysis of 3 dozen studies found similarities and differences in motivating factors for and against clinical trial ...

A study in Uganda shows how often chimps use medicinal plants and other forms of health care — and what that says about the roots of human medicine.

Yusuf / Cat Stevens has announced his memoir, Cat on the Road to Findout, due out on September 18 via Constable (UK) and ...

That is the way of rational, “effective altruism,” of which Singer, as we know, is an intellectual founding father. Effective altruism is a philosophical movement aimed at maximizing good ...