Asian elephants at Berlin Zoo show impressive skill when using a hose as a tool, and even appear to sabotage each other by stopping the flow of water ...

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In her thrilling new climate fiction novel Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner explores the isolated life of an undercover ...

Dangerous radiation reaches Mars at levels we aren't exposed to on Earth, which makes the Red Planet a particularly dangerous ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

The pressure of a watching audience can have positive or negative effects on human performance, and it turns out the same is ...

Four-legged robot dogs learned to perform new tricks by practising in a virtual platform that mimics real-world obstacles – a possible shortcut for training robots faster and more accurately ...

A quantum Rubik’s cube would be infinitely more complex than the traditional puzzle, but mathematical modelling shows it wouldn’t be unsolvable. In the summer of 2022, Noah Lordi and Maedée ...

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes ...

When it comes to the survival of animals living in the wild, the characteristics of the group can matter as much as the ...

The climate impact of flights taken by the super-rich rose sharply from 2019 to 2023, fuelling calls for a carbon tax on private aviation ...

There may be more bird flu cases in humans in the US than we previously thought. Health departments in two states took blood ...