As dairy farms automate and scale up, milking can sound less like a quiet barn and more like a factory floor. Researchers are testing whether adding music back into that soundscape can change how cows ...

Recent experimental findings suggest that the hippocampus, the brain region primarily associated with memory and navigation, actively reorganizes its neural patterns to anticipate future events.

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

Research shows that people with an animal rights mindset preferred positive force-free training, while anthropocentrists ...

Naomi Hoyer, DVM, DAVDC, an associate professor of dentistry and oral surgery at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, ...

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

The Magnetom Flow.Ace, a novel 1.5 tesla (T) platform for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has been installed at the Animal Neurology Center in St Louis, Missouri—the first installation system in a ...

Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair.

Bayes' theorem is a statistical formula used to calculate conditional probability. Learn how it works, how to calculate it ...

Behavioural ecology is the study of behavioural interactions between individuals within populations and communities, usually in an evolutionary context. It looks at how competition and cooperation ...