Last week I read an essay by New Scientist staff writer Graham Lawton with the catchy title, "Life in the anthropause." The online version is titled "Lockdown is a unique chance to see how human ...

In their fight for mates, food and territory, animals use the weapons they were born with - teeth and claws, horns and hooves. Human animals can use fists and feet, but we have been able to augment ...

Sixty-five percent of households in the U.S.—almost 80 million families—own a pet today, according to a survey by the American Pet Products Association. In addition to offering unconditional love and ...

For some years now, life science and medical research has focused on the question of how the microorganisms living in and on a body influence central life processes and thus health and disease of ...

A study by researchers at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto found that four to six-year-olds shared more after listening to books with human characters ...

They had hoped to get business back on track in the lead up to Christmas — the region is famous for its foie gras. H5N8, which arrived in Europe from Asia in early 2015, is not transmissible to humans ...

Time spent walking the streets of Mumbai has opened my eyes to urban animals' admirable qualities. When the world finally opened up this year, I decided that I needed to spend more time outdoors and, ...