Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time ...

Picture this: You’re at a picnic on a hot day and grab a cold Coke out of the cooler. It’s wet, you drop it, but think “eh, ...

Humans were not designed for space. Ironically, because we insist on going there anyway, scientists now know from studying astronauts that the lack of Earth’s gravity can wreak health havoc, such as ...

But new research published in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons will try to solve problems even when they don’t expect a food reward for the work. The scientists describe the behavior as foraging for ...

The story of a wildflower that adapted to a severe drought in California raises hopes that evolution will come to the rescue ...

A potted scarlet monkeyflower would die within a few days without water. But multiple natural populations of the species ...

Military history is filled with inventions that sounded absurd at first, from bat carried incendiary devices to exploding decoys and even early experiments with animal guided systems. Some were ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges. Hidden inside rocks over 541 million years old are rare molecular “fingerprints ...

Adam Meyer receives funding from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Kristy Ferraro receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

Just 25 years ago this land was intensively managed agricultural farmland struggling on heavy clay soils, but today it is described as absolutely thriving and potentially one of the most biodiverse ...