Within a few years, trees and shrubs were growing through the streets and buildings, wolves and wild boars started roaming ...

Rats can be taught to play hide and seek — and they squeal with joy when they win, scientists have found. Both wild and domesticated animals have been known to play, but neuroscientists from Berlin's ...

Sibling alligators Steve and Wally live within UNI's Biology Department — one reader wondered how these 'gators came to call ...

Scientists have found that combining silybin with carvedilol works far better against liver fibrosis than either drug alone.

People's sense of smell is just as sharp as those of rats and dogs, a US researcher says, calling for an end to a century-old "myth" to the contrary.

In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

A new study published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity provides evidence that consuming refined diets for as little as three ...

Frogs that freeze themselves solid in the winter and thaw in the spring inspired methods to extend the storage time for ...

Traces of a toxic chemical found on 60,000-year-old arrowheads hint at advanced planning by Palaeolithic hunters.

The NI Science Festival is set to return to the North West from February 11–22 with a roster of world-class scientists and ...

One of the dominant ways of thinking about addiction is as a disease. While there is evidence for this approach, it often ...

Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan are running tests on pregnant mice to find out how cannabis products affect ...