Fluoxetine, also known as Prozac, increased survival in a mouse model of sepsis, suggesting new therapeutic avenues for this ...

Locals in villages close to a small forest were left petrified last summer after a mysterious creature devoured a number of ...

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Crispr-Cas9 is a tool for making precise edits in DNA, discovered in bacteria. The acronym stands for 'Clustered Regularly ...

"There is a significant difference in intelligence between monkeys and apes," Becky Malinsky, curator of primates at the ...

Veteran science journalist Stephen S. Hall recounts how he approached writing Slither, a strategy seeking to draw in those ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this ...

New research on the rhythmic drumming and complex calls of chimpanzees could point scientists to the origins of language.

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our common ancestor ...

Antarctic krill not only react to external environmental influences such as light or food. They also use their internal ...