Heather Neave researches animal welfare, a field focused on understanding what practices can improve the lives of animals on ...

Every year, millions of animals are used in laboratories, and for many people, the image is immediate and uncomfortable: ...

Traditional mechanical robots, despite marked advances in intelligence and structural diversification, are vastly outperformed by living animals in ...

Scientists find many animals communicate at the same rhythm, suggesting brains may be tuned to a shared processing pace.

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

What previously required months or years of specialised lab work can now be done in hours or days thanks to its integrated ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion ...

University researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have shown that monkeys can navigate complex virtual environments using a ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

Why is most music 120 BPM? A new study discovers a universal communication tempo of 2 hertz shared by fireflies, crickets, and humans due to neural resonance.

Identification of each animal in a collective becomes possible even when individuals are never all visible simultaneously, enabling faster and more accurate analysis of collective behavior.

What do aliens sound like? We have no idea, but for Hollwood's smash hit "Project Hail Mary", that was the question that ...