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

In the latest research, led by experts at UT Southwestern, biologist Jun Wu identified a mouse cell protein named MAVS, which ...

After fighting against animal testing for decades with little success, campaigners now see a real prospect of rapidly ...

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

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

Research finds watching dogs boosts your mood, but feeling good may actually make you misread your dog's emotions.

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Mood can reverse how humans judge dog emotions. Positive moods may make dogs look sadder, while negative moods can make them ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Many medical advancements have come at the cost of rodent lives, and that's largely due to some rather surprising ...

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