A human-specific NOVA1 variant changed mouse vocalizations, potentially providing insights into the evolution of language.

After sending members home for the night, House Republicans called them back on Tuesday and secured passage of an expansive budget resolution that includes virtually the entire Trump agenda.

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Senate Bill 207 is Gov. Bill Lee's push to preserve farmland in Tennessee. The measure passed the Senate Committee on Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources in a 5-4 vote on Wednesday.

In a lab at Rockefeller University in New York, a mouse squeaks. But this is no ordinary squeak. It is a strange, complex sound, unlike anything heard from a mouse before. The difference lies in a ...

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved ...

Mice carrying a gene variant present in nearly every human on Earth — but not in extinct relatives including Neanderthals — produce more-complex chirps than normal rodents do 1. The finding ...

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If you’re lucky, you might even hear them communicating. A mother chinchilla grunts quietly while licking her baby, who squeaks in response. Adult chinchillas also grunt to each other to say hello.

The clock wound down in the first quarter, but Madison Hayes was determined to beat Father Time and get to the rim. She cut along the baseline and managed to release the ball just a fraction of a ...