After a cardiac arrest, families and doctors are often faced with agonizing uncertainty about a patient's chances of recovery ...

A pet cow in Austria named Veronika picks up sticks with her mouth and uses them to scratch herself—which a team at ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series ...

The discovery builds on Jane Goodall’s research from the 1960s ...

Veronika has officially put cows in one of biology’s most exclusive circles: the flexible tool users club. While scientists ...

An analysis of over 41 million research papers from the past 40 years has revealed that researchers who use artificial ...

A very clever cow has learned to use sticks to scratch herself, the first time sophisticated tool use has been seen in ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows ...

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A new study is the first to describe tool use in a cow. It could be evidence that livestock has higher cognitive capabilities ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...