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For many Puerto Ricans, the nightly chirping of “coh-KEE” — the sound of a tiny frog known as the coquí — is like a national lullaby. But for one purported tourist, the noise felt more like a ...

The common coquí frog is a small but iconic species in Puerto Rico. Their melodic “co-quí” call is a lullaby for people on the island. But it’s far less welcome in places like Florida and Hawaii, ...

There are false notions out there regarding the limits of physiological processes. For years, some people have circulated the idea that a human heart contains a fixed number of beats—said to be about ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Zuania Colón-Piñeiro is a Posdoctoral Research Fellow in ...