Avian plumage doesn’t simply enable flight–this miracle of Nature provides birds with protection, shape and colour and remains a highly desirable fashion accoutrement for us, too.

Jackdaw chicks learn about predators by listening to adults, new research shows. Scientists played recordings of predator ...

MILAN, Metropolitan City of Milan — The Winter Olympics are here and with various down-hill sports on the schedule, here are some of the fastest out there. There are multiple ski-based sports, but ...

The Oregon Zoo previously said Tula-Tu was targeted to hit 1,000 pounds by her first birthday. Last week, she tipped the ...

As winter begins to ebb in a few weeks, people will be thinking about landscape issues again. An unfortunate question I am sometimes asked is similar to this: “I lost my prized shade tree! What can I ...

And while many companies are pouring a lot of that money—we’re talking hundreds of billions—into building massive data centers, hoping to establish a long-term strategic advantage in the AI arms race, ...

However, for some people, a hairy mole is an undesirable (though completely normal) occurrence. Usually, a mole with a hair is nothing to worry about, but there are some symptoms that warrant a trip ...

When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the ...