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 ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small Australian mammals lost to cats and foxes, but all hope is not gone.

When the scientists put the human version of NOVA1 into mice, the animals made more complex sounds. Erich Jarvis, a neuroscientist at Rockefeller University and a co-author of the new study ...