Using tufts of moss as sponges, improvising play dolls from tree stumps, clipping leaves to signal wanting to be picked up – child chimpanzees are savvy technologists and communicators, a Canadian-led study finds.

Newly diagnosed female cancer patients of reproductive age have a very short window for storing their eggs and embryos before starting cancer treatment. This is a process known as fertility preservation (FP), which protects patients’ ability to have children in the future after completing cancer treatment. Currently, scientists cannot predict which women will be successful in achieving a pregnancy or a healthy live birth after completing chemotherapy and undergoing FP. In a recent study, researchers identified Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) levels as a prognostic indicator for success rates in fertility treatments.

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever. Researchers writing in Frontiers in Science warn that advances in AI and neurotechnology are outpacing our understanding of consciousness—with potentially serious ethical consequences.

New research has found that microbial communities in soil have the capacity to remember and adapt to past environmental events, helping plants to withstand drought stress.