Older adults whose cholesterol levels fluctuate from year to year may face an increased risk for dementia and cognitive decline compared to people whose cholesterol levels remain more stable, new ...

Gibbons are famed for their graceful agility high in the forest canopy. Swinging effortlessly from branch to branch, their ...

What legacy do you want to leave behind? Are you a circus animal, or are you something else? Only you get to decide that. The ...

Bioacoustics, the study of production, transmission and reception of sound in animals, has important implications for ecological conservation.

Translating Time’ database compares how animal brains develop and age, enabling researchers to learn more about humans.

Here we demonstrate an unexpected degree of flexibility and cognition in a decision made by a hunting animal at reflex-like speed. Based on observing initial speed, direction, and height of falling ...

Animal biotechnology is a branch of biotechnology in which molecular biology techniques are used to genetically engineer (i.e. modify the genome of) animals in order to improve their suitability ...

“The key insight is that the ideal learning rate increases in the same way regardless of the pace of environmental change, whether the organism changes its environment or alters its interaction with ...

Donald Griffin co-discovered bat sonar, founded the field of echolocation, and opened the door for the study of awareness and ...

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over ...

Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) ...