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An amazing story that might shift the animal care paradigm for the disabled.
There's a lot more going on under those horns than you'd think.
It's a great day for the Internet but we're still just shy of a decisive ruling.
Why build some tech from scratch when nature did all the dirty work for you over millions of years of evolution?
Developing countries stand to lose $177 billion each year or about half a percentage point of GDP due to delays in the physical development of children.
Despite having a single visual pigment in their retinas, cephalopods can blend with their multi-coloured surroundings easily fooling both prey and predators.
Antartica's penguins are in trouble.
Just as green, but with 1000% more "ew."
A truly amazing animal.
One of the most familiar livestock animals seems to signal information about their personalities, but also wellbeing, by grunting.
Humans -- tyrants of creators? Two researchers explored this duality by studying both extinct species and those who had evolved as a direct influence of man.
A tiny algae could spiral out of control with huge consequences.
An open letter to U.S. policy makers signed by 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies reaffirms the reality of man-made climate change.
Stanford researchers found California's drought-struck Central Valley harbors three times more groundwater than previously thought.
Global warming is greening the planet, but there's only so much CO2 plants can absorb.
Though they're separated by 25 million years of evolution, monkeys and humans share at least one common fact of life: both choose to have a less engaged social life at old age.
The island rule is not a myth, but an evolutionary reality.
Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
Visitors to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia, were stunned by the sight of a snake who spun in circles countless times in a ring made from its own skin.
Tesla Motors wants to buy SolarCity for $2.8 billion in stock-to-stock.
It's amazing to see how the bears can sense human patterns and use us. It's actually refreshing for a change.
The secret lies in an ultra-sticky saliva that's 400 times more adhesive than human spit, a new study reveals.
There may be a fine line between how baby birds learn to sing and humans learn to speak.
Sueur and Pelé have seen Japanese macaques washing potatoes, riding deer for transportation, taking hot-spring baths, handling stones, fighting with snowballs and many other things you'd class as "human". They've written a book about these amazing monkeys which will be out soon.
After studying prairie dogs for 25 years, one researcher believes he figured out what prairie dogs are communicating about. He believes that the animals are not only very efficient communicators, but they also have an eye for details. Gunnison’s prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is one of five species of the prairie dog. Their name is […]
There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
2016 will go in history as the first year carbon emission stay above 400ppm all year round. I don't think anyone's proud about this.
It was a cute rodent, off the northern coast of Australia, on an island by the Great Barrier Reef. Now it's gone, because of us.
It's good news for us, but perhaps not good news for the rodents.
Mars will be very safe and very comfortable one day. But first it's going to be harsh and unwelcoming.
Norway is killing more whales than Japan and Iceland combined.
You can only postpone the inevitable.
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
Many animals and plants are trapped in the face of mounting climate change. Their only hope are corridors that free access to cooler areas of the country.
The company has chosen to award the shoes via a raffle system on Instagram
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
Things are looking bad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
It's something that should have happened a long time ago.
This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!
Stormy weather has an unusual upside if you happen to live on Australia's eastern coasts: giant waves of sea foam.
No later than October, Climeworks expects to open the first ever commercial carbon dioxide capture plant in the world, near Zurich.
Authorities evacuated people and closed off the area to traffic, while they find a way to stabilize the collapsed area.
There are scores of marine species that have evolved light emitting abilities -- as many as four in five ocean fish are bioluminescent
Dubai loves to take things to the superlative, and the city isn't toying around this time either.
Chinese company EHang's model 184 will be the first human transport drone to ever be tested in the U.S. Keep your fingers crossed, this may solve your commute problems forever.
With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.
One of the most famous biology myths was just confirmed. It was rather shocking.
A conversation is a two-way street where cooperation is paramount, and humans aren't the only great apes that put it to good use.
