A baby giraffe walks within an hour of birth, while human newborns can barely lift their heads. Neuroscience suggests that ...

An Immense World argues every species builds a separate reality from the senses evolution gave it, so human perception is one arbitrary slice—not the measure of the world.

The bite of a female mosquito is the critical point of pathogen transmission, yet the fine-scale biting dynamics on human skin remain unknown. Here, we combine high-speed videography, ...

Daniel Kraus, author of the novel of the same name, chose sperm whales specifically because they're about the only creature ...

Comparing sperm shapes reveals the evolution of living organisms — To start with the conclusion, the sperm of many animals ...

Austin Abrams is having a challenging year. After stumbling into this September’s Raccoon City outbreak, he’s now been ...

What Bruner calls “braking,” the Yale neuroscientist Amy Arnsten calls “regulation”—specifically, calcium regulation, which ...

Hand clapping and cap-guns were engaged to limit the danger from kestrels and crows. Throughout the night a warden was ...

A new Frontiers review argues that no human has ever conceived in space and that making babies beyond Earth may require ...

It is the contradiction that Godzilla—a keloid-scarred god of radioactive destruction and a child of human wisdom—was born at ...