These innovative approaches enable the study of disease mechanisms that closely mimic human pathophysiology and offer new platforms for screening therapeutic compounds, surpassing the limitations of ...

Scientists are studying these behaviors to understand animal emotions better. Jealousy is a complex emotion familiar to humans, often arising from a fear of losing attention, affection ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

In the recently published book The Human Evolutionary Transition: From Animal Intelligence to Culture (Princeton University Press), ethologists Magnus Enquist and Johan Lind at Stockholm ...

“Just the vastly privileged doing vastly stupid things.” In a world transformed by humans, the line between captive animals and wild ones can be as fuzzy as the creatures that occupy that ...

Teleoperated robots at scale, even if years away, could mean a seismic shift in how we think about labor and automation. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.

Today this frigid strait separates North America and Asia, but geologists suspect when the oceans were dramatically lower a land bridge tied the two continents together — allowing humans and ...

Have you ever wondered if animals can understand our language, detecting words and commands? While they cannot converse like humans, certain animals have an extraordinary ability to detect words ...