Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as ...

Crows do not just fly around scavenging but they also solve puzzles, make tools, remember faces and pass down knowledge ...

Democracy is in retreat or at least on the defensive almost everywhere, while wars are getting bigger and more frequent. The trend lines are frighteningly bad.

Years ago I conjured a story, Whale Song, about a bright, stalwart, confident high school girl who, after a surfing ...