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Complicated births may not have arisen in humans as a trade-off between our need for big brains and pelvises suitable for upright walking, new research in chimps suggests.

The first spark of cellular life on Earth likely needed gift packaging. Let me explain. With the holidays around the corner, we're all beginning to order presents. Each is carefully packaged inside a box or bubble-wrappe...

Dogs and their owners show synchronized heart rate variability (HRV), reflecting shared emotional states during relaxed interactions, a new study reveals. Researchers observed that both heart rate and physical activity l...

A new study finds that chimpanzees, like humans, are affected by being watched: their performance on computer tasks improved on difficult tasks with larger human audiences but declined on simpler ones. This phenomenon, k...

A groundbreaking 25-year study has shown that childhood cognitive ability significantly impacts intelligence in older age, with nearly half of cognitive variance persisting across decades. The research tracked participan...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought -- and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles - a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately

Rising H5N1 bird flu cases in the U.S. prompted the CDC to study the virus in ferrets, revealing it may have the potential to spread and cause severe symptoms in other mammals.

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into food is an enviable superpower. Now, researchers have shown they can get animal cells to do the same thing. Photosynthesis in plants and algae is performed by tiny organelle...

An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spectators influenced their performance in different ways depending on the difficulty of the task

Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow of water

Allowing for moves that create quantum superpositions makes a quantum version of a Rubik's cube incredibly complex, but not impossible to solve

In order to figure out how something came from nothing, we first need to explore the different types of nothing

Charles Darwin is famous for proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection, but how much more do you know about the British naturalist?

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago. But new research says ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years -- but new threats mean the plant is now in decline.

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently vanished after "completely melting" away.

The first-ever wooden satellite, called LignoSat, arrived at the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule on Nov. 5 to perform some key in-space tests.

Scientists identified four new species of king cobra from 154 museum specimens.

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision that created the smallest black hole ever seen.

On what would've been the astronomer's 90th trip around the sun, here's a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator.

We now know the nerve responsible for dogs shaking water all over your dry clothes.