As part of Polar Bear Week (Nov. 2-8), a new artificial intelligence-based system, which has been in a testing phase in the ...

Spending quality time with pets offers significant emotional and physical benefits, scientifically proven to reduce stress ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of ...

Nick Bostrom literally wrote the book on superintelligence. When machines can do nearly everything better than we can, he says, we must ask what is our purpose.

Have you ever wondered why, when plunged into complete darkness, your eyes seem to conjure up swirling patterns, flashes, or ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really ...

Many experiments, like polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or immunohistochemistry (IHC), involve long stretches of waiting. IHC, for instance, can take two days, while PCR samples often sit in a ...

The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State continues to expand, and its founder hopes to ...

Merritt’s cemetery marmots are the latest wild animal population to dig up trouble after finding a happy home in a ...

When it came to living life, Joe Mickelsen was on the front lines. Mickelsen’s long epic story came to an end on Sunday morning, when the Vallejoan and veteran of the Korean War and longtime ...

These days, I see people thinking and worrying about rapid and dynamic changes taking place all over the world. People fear climate change, loss of green cover from Warth, extinction of animal and ...