Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.

An international team led by Einstein Professor Cecilia Clementi in the Department of Physics at Freie Universität Berlin has ...

Facial expressions evolved as fast, universal emotional signals, interpreted more reliably than wordless vocalizations. Human ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

Since Ridley Scott's Alien in 1979, the sci-fi horror franchise has spawned sequels, prequels, and spinoffs. But how do they rank?

The beautiful, fascinating and often perplexing world around us grows from intricate and convoluted interactions of millions ...

A team of scientists has documented for the first time how a pod of orcas in Norway work in pairs to enjoy a feast of herring ...

Harvard researchers have turned the nightmarish behavior of California blackworms into the foundation for a new kind of robotic swarm system. A team led by Justin Werfel at the Harvard John A. Paulson ...

Page from Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell (translated by Studio Proteus), 1991. © the artist / Kodansha Co, Ltd. All ...

In an era dominated by globalisation, African education systems stand at a crossroads: how to cultivate relevance and pride ...

A multinational research team used behavioral assays and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) to examine short- and ...