S ome animals naturally have extraordinarily long lifespans, like the Greenland shark or the bowhead whale. Others, however, ...

Abstract: In response to the problems of mismatched human-robot motion and poor human-robot coupling (HRC) performance in ankle rehabilitation robots, this study proposes a cable-driven flexible ankle ...

Outside the Field Museum in Chicago, a bronze sculpture by artist Marla Friedman captures a moment a friendship was made. It's called "The Red Palm Nut." A young woman sits barefoot on the ground, ...

When Jane Goodall first set foot in the forests of Gombe, Tanzania, in 1960, she had no formal scientific degree, no big grants, and certainly no textbook on how to “talk" to chimpanzees. Yet, within ...

Jane Goodall, founder of The Jane Goodall Institute, holds her stuffed animal traveling companion named Mr. H as she speaks with Forbes senior editor Maggie McGrath at the 2025 Forbes Sustainability ...

It was a hug worthy only of the woman who redefined man. For Jane Goodall, that 2014 embrace with a rescued chimp called Wounda at her institute's sanctuary in the Republic of Congo was yet another ...

Because chimps are humans' closest living relatives, Leakey hoped that understanding the animals would provide insights into early humans. In a predominantly male field, he also thought a woman would ...

Acclaimed chimpanzee expert and conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, who revolutionised the world’s understanding of animal behaviour, has died aged 91. The much-loved zoologist, primatologist and ...

Scientists reflect on the life and work of a researcher whose discoveries made them rethink what it means to be human. By Carl Zimmer and Emily Anthes Most people know Jane Goodall, who died Wednesday ...