A rat first frees a cagemate rat and then shares food with it. Is this animal just as empathetic as humans? In an American ...

An international team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn has studied a ...

When analyzing crime, the foreign population typically shows higher rates than the native population. However, crime ...

Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a new study suggests.

When archaeologists opened the 2,600-year-old tomb of an ancient Chinese lord, they discovered his magnificent bronze bells ...

A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

As consumer interest grows in foods and beverages with added nutritional value, brewers are exploring ways to improve ...

Where would you go to watch a star being born? Probably not the heart of the Milky Way, which is about the most violent neighborhood our galaxy has to offer, a maelstrom of gas churning so fast and so ...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy—super-puffs the size of Jupiter.

The warblers—those harbingers of spring in the U.K.—have an unappreciated talent of a different sort. Common U.K. birds, including chiffchaffs and blackcaps, are playing a real role in the pollination ...

An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the lateral line in fish—their ...