Woodpeckers endure incredible head impacts without injury, thanks to a unique adaptation. Their extraordinarily long tongue ...

Situated in a dark groove is a drum never to be beaten. Thin as a strand of hair, the delicate drum transmits sound waves. This drum does not speak; it ...

Humans and mice share persistent brain-activity patterns in response to adverse sensory experience, scientists find, opening a window to our emotions and, perhaps, neuropsychiatric disorders.

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For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

About 10.6 percent of people are left-handed, but what about animals? A new study looked at data from 172 animal species to ...

The body’s pathogen fighters can act as surveillance forces that ferry information from the gut and fat deposits to the brain ...

People often marvel at how much—and how little—intelligence is displayed in the animal kingdom. Often the subject of research ...