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Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

The European Union has robust environmental legislation, with the Birds and Habitats Directives playing a particularly ...

An overview of the global movement using laws and courts to strengthen protections for animals in farming, research, and daily life.

Why do we seek certainty in our lives? Why do we sometimes not want certainty? This post explains how certainty is part of affect, the evaluative common currency of the mind.

Oxygen shaped the world as we know it. It’s why we hiccup and why frogs croak. It’s so good that some turtles have learned to suck it in using not just their nose and mouth, but also… another orifice.

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a ...

Free-flowing rivers are vital for freshwater ecosystems. Learn more about WWF's efforts to preserve their natural state.

Some shopping trips last twenty minutes, others stretch to an hour or two, but Bussey’s Flea Market in Schertz operates on an ...

But how exactly they produce the distinctive sound - also called a neigh - has long eluded scientists. That mystery has been ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...