The World Health Organization reported two cases of a rare virus in an eastern Indian state on Thursday. The virus — called Nipah — kills more than half of the people it infects. Nipah virus, which ...

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Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Learn why North Carolina picked the gray squirrel as a symbol, and how this common backyard visitor shapes forests and state identity.