Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis shows. Researchers ...

Space is full of radiation, which is bad for both babies and non-babies alike, but we also have to worry about how microgravity affects the human body, too.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the ...

The evolutionary basis for love is deceptively complex. At first glance, it makes sense for positive feelings to be associated with behaviours that promote the survival and reproduction of a species.

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

They're often paid low wages and lack job protections. A petition to the country's supreme court to support their demands did ...

A recent French study seems to verify what many old-time horsemen have long believed: that horses can smell fear in humans, ...

Since their larvae are dependent on the host’s body for their first phase of life, it behooves the wasp to improve conditions in the body in whatever way it can. For example, some parasitic wasps are ...