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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On the drizzly night of October 31, Equator, a new global magazine, held its launch event on the south bank of the Thames ...

With a possible pandemic in our future, immunologist John Wherry is racing to develop a once-a-lifetime vaccine Primatologist Brian Hare investigates the social behavior of chimpanzees and bonobos in ...