This collection highlights the most downloaded* Nature Communications papers in social science and human behaviour published in 2024. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers highlight ...

We are pleased to share with you the 25 most downloaded Nature Communications articles* in social science and human behavior published in 2023. Featuring authors from ...

We've all experienced defeat at some point – losing a game, a potential new job, a debate. Now, a new study has found that ...

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

Some of our canine pets are colloquially called "ball junkies" because they have an addictive-like attitude toward their toys ...

You might have noticed that the seasons don’t quite behave like they used to. In some places, fall and spring seem to fly by, while winter and summer are much longer and feel more intense. This shift ...

In January 2006, researchers Nigel Franks and Tom Richardson provided the first solid evidence of teaching in a non-human ...

University of Kansas researcher Folashade Agusto trained as an applied mathematician, though today she's an associate professor of ecology & evolutionary biology. She uses that mathematical training ...

On a bright, late-summer day in north-central Europe around 300,000 years ago, a team of perhaps a couple dozen hunters got into their assigned positions for a big kill. Little did they know that ...

Joshua Plotnik: For about 20 years, I have been studying Asian elephant cognition. The biggest issue for the conservation of ...

The application of precise scientific methods to the messy world of human interactions might sound like just another exercise in ultramodern overconfidence. But ultramodern it's not: One of the first ...

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