Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Some great apes realize when a ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

A recent experiment found that bonobos can understand when a human lacks knowledge and will often step in to help a human out. Host Marco Werman spoke with Chris Krupenye, an evolutionary cognitive ...

The date was February 3, 1925. The Star, a daily South African newspaper, featured a story on an exciting scientific ...

Apes may be even smarter than we think and can intuitively ‘read minds’ just like humans. The ability to understand what someone else knows is a sophisticated skill which human children only ...

If you placed 1 on the left and 5 on the right, you share this preference with most humans. This is known as the mental ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns ...

Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns Hopkins ...