Human beings live every day with the understanding of our own mortality, but do animals have any concept of death? It’s a question that has long intrigued scientists, fueled by reports of ants, for ...

A biologically grounded computational model built to mimic real neural circuits, not trained on animal data, learned a visual categorization task just as actual lab animals do, matching their accuracy ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

Mike Webster works for the University of St Andrews. He receives funding from the University of St Andrews and various research organisations. Many animals live in groups. One of the main benefits of ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

The bobcat is a medium-sized predator in the United States characterized by its unusual ear tufts, fluffy cheeks, ...

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Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their five senses to survive. Devon Ritter from the Memphis Zoo explores how animals use their senses of touch, hearing, sight, and smell to ...

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Echolocation is a mechanism that can allow you to navigate the environment by using sound instead of sight. Animals like bats and dolphins are famous for their echolocation skills — however, not many ...