In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Feeding wild animals might seem like a harmless act of kindness, but it often carries serious and unintended consequences.

Most workplace injuries don’t happen because the worker was careless. They happen because the worker did not know the right ...

Researchers have observed a long-dormant black hole being “reborn” in a distant galaxy. Located at the heart of galaxy ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

The eHaul project, funded by the German government, has completed its two-year practical test of a battery-swapping station ...

Virunga park ranger says babies are well cared for by mother Mafuko but high infant mortality makes first weeks critical ...

“Primate” is a horror movie focused on a pet chimpanzee named Ben that contracts rabies and goes on a gruesome killing spree.

Our growing understanding of how other animals also share skills and knowledge will help us chip away at the folly of human exceptionalism, say Philippa Brakes and Marc Bekoff ...

The recent sequence of failures involving the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) has unsettled India’s space and strategic community in a way that routine launch mishaps usually do not. The concern ...

When I respond to each one, my chatbot interviewer thanks me for my honesty and empathises with any issues. By the end of the ...

Sleep is one of life’s most universal behaviors. Despite its ubiquity, it’s also one of the most mysterious. Humans spend ...