Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is slated to be a universal animal language translator, thus you can speak with your favorite pet, such as a lovable dog. In today’s column, I explore a touted ...

Blushing is one of those weird little things the body does that we rarely stop to think about—until we feel our cheeks ...

In the early 1800s, leg amputations free of acute pain seemed impossible. However, the first widely used anesthetic, called ether, was right around the corner. Sixteenth-century physician Paracelsus ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...