song birds

Researchers find female absence is a sufficient general explanation for the longstanding mystery of why male birds chorus at dawn and dusk.

Hannah Smith is a Biology PhD student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Hannah is interested in the biological pathways that regulate aging, and whether we can target these pathways to make people healthier in old age (but she’s currently…

by Hannah Smith Erich Jarvis, photo by Frank Veronsky Have you ever wondered why you can teach a parakeet to talk, but you can’t teach a dog or a cat? Dr. Erich Jarvis has spent his scientific career studying the brain pathways required for this…