A team of researchers from Czech University of Life Sciences, Virginia Tech and Barry University has found evidence that suggests dogs may use Earth's magnetic field as a navigational aid. In their paper in the eLife Sciences initiative, the group describes their study of dog navigation and what they learned from it.

It is often thought that humans are different from other animals in some fundamental way that makes us unique, or even more advanced than other species. These claims of human superiority are sometimes used to justify the ways we treat other animals,

It builds on findings of a 2003 study that won an Ig Nobel Prize in Fluid Dynamics.

Magnetotactic bacteria have magnetosomes with which they can sense magnetic field lines. This allows magnetotactic bacteria to swim towards North or South

On 11 September 2019, scientists from the Avantea laboratory in Italy announced that they had successfully created two Northern white rhino embryos. With only two females surviving of the subspecies, this development is a huge step for Northern white rhinos. In January 2020, those involved with the project announced that another embryo had been successfully created in December 2019. All three embryos now remain frozen under liquid nitrogen.

Rangeomorphs, fern-like animals from the Ediacaran period, were distinguished, to say the least. In their hey day, these early lifeforms colonized entire sea floors and grew up to two meters tall. They may also have created the first social network on the planet.

In a paddock in rural Australia are five calves that look just like any others. But they're not — they're biological hazards.

Take chemistry, add energy, get life. The first tests of Jeremy England’s provocative origin-of-life hypothesis are in, and they appear to show how order can arise from nothing.

A team of environmental researchers at the Australian Rivers Institute–Coast & Estuaries, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, is suggesting in a Letters piece in the journal Science that the COVID-19 pandemic could represent a new opportunity for a more diverse future—they suggest that with proper planning, we could use what has been learned from the global lockdown to improve global biodiversity.

Moss balls seem to roll around glaciers in a coordinated way, and researchers can't explain why the whole group moves at about the same speed and in the same direction.

We saved 53 Endangered Sydney Whites Seahorses by relocating them to a new home! Their home near Manly Beach, Sydney was being demolished and as poor swimmers they would've perished. Luckily we got there first! Hope you enjoy the short heartwarming video

Men and women have strikingly different patterns of alcohol use and suffer varying consequences of excessive drinking. Women drink less than men but are more likely to suffer bodily harm and illness related to alcohol. In a new study in mice, researchers uncovered a key mechanism driving this puzzling gender imbalance: fluctuating estrogen.

Scientists discover hundreds of different fungi in Amazonian soil, thought to play a vital role in nature.

A chemical refined from the blue, copper-based blood of horseshoe crabs helps identify contaminants in medical equipment inserted into humans.

Scientists seek to crack an evolutionary code.

The aesthetically challenged naked mole rat could offer clues to battling disease and slowing the effects of aging.

As our brains become increasingly intertwined with our technologies, we run the risk of exposing our minds to hackers. As this new video from AsapScience shows, the possibility is very real.

Three scientists won the Nobel medicine prize on Monday for plotting how cells transfer vital materials such as hormones and brain chemicals to other cells, giving insight into diseases such as Alzheimer's, autism and diabetes.

There have been some interesting creatures popping up in the Arctic. Canadian hunters have found white bears with brown tints—a cross between Ursus maritimus, the polar bear, and Ursus arctos horribilis, the grizzly. A couple of decades ago, off the coast of Greenland, something that appeared to be half-narwhal, half-beluga surfaced, and much more recently, Dall’s porpoise and harbor porpoise mixes have been swimming near British Columbia.