Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a ...

An analysis of thousands of cognitive tests carried out by chimpanzees finds that the number of spectators influenced their ...

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 ...

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes ...

Blood tests have shown that about 7 per cent of workers on dairy farms that had H5N1 outbreaks had antibodies against the ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

The climate impact of flights taken by the super-rich rose sharply from 2019 to 2023, fuelling calls for a carbon tax on private aviation ...

Chronic pain has increased among adults in the US since 2019, which could be due to a rise in sedentary lifestyles or reduced access to healthcare amid covid-19 restrictions ...