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Reproductive Inequality in Humans and Other Mammals

To address claims of human exceptionalism, we determine where humans fit within the greater mammalian distribution of reproductive inequality.

Why Do Some Experience Repeated Miscarriages? Research May Help Us

CHROMOSOMES The most common cause of spontaneous abortions is chromosome defects, but they can be difficult to detect. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new method that can make us wiser about how chromosome defects and disease-associated chromosome changes look and how to aid diagnosis.

Not Just for Programmers: How Github Can Accelerate Collaborative and Reproducible Research in Ecology and Evolution

Researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology are increasingly dependent on computational code to conduct research.

New Drug Combo Shows Early Potential For Treating Pancreatic Cancer

Researchers find three immunotherapy drugs given together can eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice.

Brain Volume, Energy Balance, and Cardiovascular Health in Two Nonindustrial South American Populations

Little is known about brain aging or dementia in nonindustrialized environments that are similar to how humans lived throughout evolutionary history.

Reliable Network Inference From Unreliable Data: A Tutorial on Latent Network Modeling Using STRAND

Social network analysis provides an important framework for studying the causes, consequences, and structure of social ties.

Exact Symbolic Artificial Intelligence For Faster, Better Assessment Of AI Fairness

Probabilistic programming language allows for fast, error-free answers to hard AI problems, including fairness.

Understanding ‘It Depends’ in Ecology: a Guide to Hypothesising, Visualising and Interpreting Statistical Interactions

Ecologists routinely use statistical models to detect and explain interactions among ecological drivers, with a goal to evaluate whether an effect of interest changes in sign or magnitude in different contexts.

Machine Learning Discovers New Sequences To Boost Drug Delivery

MIT researchers employ machine learning to find powerful peptides that could improve a gene therapy drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Variability in Molar Crown Morphology and Cusp Wear in Two Western Chimpanzee Populations

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) possess a relatively generalized molar morphology allowing them to access a wide range of foods.

Men With Obesity Can Double Their Sperm Count

REPRODUCTION Men with obesity can double their sperm count if they lose weight and maintain the weight loss. This is the conclusion in a new study by researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Hvidovre Hospital.

Sourcing High Tissue Quality Brains from Deceased Wild Primates with Known Socio-Ecology

The selection pressures that drove dramatic encephalisation processes through the mammal lineage remain elusive, as does knowledge of brain structure reorganisation through this process.

Global Warming Begets More Warming, New Paleoclimate Study Finds

Researchers observe a “warming bias” over the past 66 million years that may return if ice sheets disappear.

Decolonise Research to Save Heritage Threatened by Climate Change

Climate change threatens to destroy invaluable heritage sites and traditions in marginalised countries – but empowering local people is key to adaptation, according to a new study.

African Heritage Sites Threatened by Coastal Flooding and Erosion as Sea-Level Rise Accelerates

Important heritage sites on the African coast classed as having “outstanding and universal value” are threatened by flooding and erosion because of the climate emergency, a new study warns.

Cancer Vulnerabilities Could Get Exposed By ‘Game Changing’ Method

NEW METHOD How do some people develop resistance to cancer treatment? Now, research from University of Copenhagen shows that a new method called 'Deep Visual Proteomics' may be able to help doctors get closer to an answer and expose cancer tumor’s vulnerabilities.

Waiting Over Five Hours at A&E Increases Risk of Death

Patients made to wait longer than five hours at A&E face an increased risk of death within 30 days, a new study shows.

COP26 Deal Sparks Hope for Positive Tipping Points

The Breakthrough Agenda agreed at COP26 could help trigger positive tipping points to tackle the climate crisis, researchers say.

Gabon Provides Blueprint for Protecting Oceans

Gabon's network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) provides a blueprint that could be used in many other countries, experts say.