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As a rule, friendship is considered an unalloyed good, one of life's happy-happies, like flowers and fresh fruit. ''Report: It Would Probably Be Nice Having Friends,'' read a recent headline [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER A friend will help you move, goes an old saying, while a good friend will help you move a body. And why not? Moral qualms aside, that [...]

Every night during breeding season, the male túngara frog of Central America will stake out a performance patch in the local pond and spend unbroken hours broadcasting his splendor to [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Every night during breeding season, the male túngara frog of Central America will stake out a performance patch in the local pond and spend unbroken hours broadcasting [...]

Around 1920, Justo Daza, an experienced mine worker, and Fritz Klein, a mining engineer, were scrambling over the steep mountainside terraces of Chivor, a legendary emerald site in northeast Colombia. [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Around 1920, Justo Daza, an experienced mine worker, and Fritz Klein, a mining engineer, were scrambling over the steep mountainside terraces of Chivor, a legendary emerald site [...]

Tom Vaughan, a photographer then living in Colorado's Mancos Valley, kept a hummingbird feeder outside his house. One morning, he stepped through the portico door and noticed a black-chinned hummingbird [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Tom Vaughan, a photographer then living in Colorado's Mancos Valley, kept a hummingbird feeder outside his house. One morning, he stepped through the portico door and noticed [...]

A normal human baby, according to psychologists, will cry about two hours over the course of a day. A notorious human crybaby, according to her older siblings, parents and the [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER A normal human baby, according to psychologists, will cry about two hours over the course of a day. A notorious human crybaby, according to her older siblings, [...]

To the Mesopotamians, the liver was the body's premier organ, the seat of the human soul and emotions. The ancient Greeks linked the liver to pleasure: The words hepatic and [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER To the Mesopotamians, the liver was the body's premier organ, the seat of the human soul and emotions. The ancient Greeks linked the liver to pleasure: The [...]

NORTH SEYMOUR ISLAND, Galápagos -- The birds move with comic grace, like Fred Astaire and Judy Garland as hobo swells in oversize shoes. The male faces the female and slowly, [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER NORTH SEYMOUR ISLAND, Galápagos -- The birds move with comic grace, like Fred Astaire and Judy Garland as hobo swells in oversize shoes. The male faces the [...]

Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research into the fundamental properties of carbon helped transform it into the superstar of modern materials science and [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research into the fundamental properties of carbon helped transform it into the superstar of modern [...]

Whether personally or professionally, Daniel Kronauer of Rockefeller University is the sort of biologist who leaves no stone unturned. Passionate about ants and other insects since kindergarten, Dr. Kronauer says [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Whether personally or professionally, Daniel Kronauer of Rockefeller University is the sort of biologist who leaves no stone unturned. Passionate about ants and other insects since kindergarten, [...]

They said it was their family curse: a rare congenital deformity called syndactyly, in which the thumb and index finger are fused together on one or both hands. Ten members [...]

The female bonobo apes of the Wamba forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo had just finished breakfast and were preparing for a brief nap in the treetops, bending and [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Their word is their bond, and they do what they say - even if the 'word' on one side is a loud trill and grunt and, on [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Their word is their bond, and they do what they say - even if the 'word' on one side is a loud trill and grunt, and, on [...]

Their word is their bond, and they do what they say -- even if the ''word'' on one side is a loud trill and grunt, and, on the other, the [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER At birth, the least weasel is as small and light as a paper clip, and the tiny ribs that press visibly against its silvery pink skin give [...]

At birth, the least weasel is as small and light as a paper clip, and the tiny ribs that press visibly against its silvery pink skin give it a segmented [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Harambe, the 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla shot dead at the Cincinnati Zoo late last month after a 3-year-old boy fell into his enclosure, may be physically gone, [...]

Harambe, the 17-year-old Western lowland gorilla shot dead at the Cincinnati Zoo late last month after a 3-year-old boy fell into his enclosure, may be physically gone, his tissues harvested [...]

CHICAGO -- We had just finished the mathematician Eugenia Cheng's splendid demonstration of nonassociativity where the order of operations counts -- as it does in, say, subtraction. Now she wanted [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Juan F. Masello never intended to study wild parrots. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student visiting the northernmost province of Patagonia in Argentina, he planned to [...]

Juan F. Masello never intended to study wild parrots. Twenty years ago, as a graduate student visiting the northernmost province of Patagonia in Argentina, he planned to write his dissertation [...]

Byline: NATALIE ANGIER Whether to enliven a commute, relax in the evening or drown out the buzz of a neighbor's recreational drone, people in the United States listen to music [...]