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Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...

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Lauren Riters shares research on the factors that affect singing behavior in songbirds. Lauren Riters, professor in the department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shares ...