Every December, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) publishes the number of animals used or killed for scientific ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the ...

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A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition ...

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is believing that you know everything there is to know. Even if you’re ...

Humans don’t just recognize each other’s voices—our brains also light up for the calls of chimpanzees, hinting at ancient communication roots shared with our closest primate relatives. Researchers ...

Embark Studios' extraction shooter takes cues from sci-fi classics to establish a dark future, but its cautionary tale is ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Drawing on data from more than 100 mammal species, an international team of researchers examined the trade-off between living ...