Safari Martins may be Kenya’s most famous barber. Known as Chief Safro on social media, where he has millions of followers ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual ...

You’ve heard of birds flying south to escape the winter, but do you know how chipmunks spend the colder months? Eastern chipmunks dig their burrows near decaying logs or stone piles, carving out a ...

Animal-rights groups have long been at odds with the U.S. government, which subsidizes meat and dairy production and spends billions of dollars on animal research every year. But in some ways, they’ve ...

In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health have announced new initiatives to reduce and replace animal testing in biomedical research. Central to these ...

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It's not just humans who notice optical illusions; certain animals do too, and they often use it to their advantage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Julie E. Gough is professor of biomaterials and tissue engineering in the Department of Materials, School of Natural Sciences and NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, University of Manchester, ...

Kaplan is the author of “Lab Dog: A Beagle and His Human Investigate the Surprising World of Animal Research.” We woke in Boston before daybreak as usual, and Hammy — my beagle, who was once a lab dog ...

“We’re about to have an internet of animals, and that’s super exciting.” So said Martin Wikelski, from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, on BBC Science Focus. Wikelski was ...

Animal testing in Connecticut rakes in millions in federal dollars each year at colleges and universities but, the National Institutes of Health recently announced it is pivoting from using just ...