They weren’t named man’s best friend for nothing – we’ve long known that dogs have an uncanny ability to understand and communicate with humans. But new research suggests that your pup may be able to ...

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Meet the unmanned drones, remote-controlled ground vehicles and four-legged robots revolutionising modern warfare ...

They found that more intelligent participants tended to listen to songs with sad or emotionally complex lyrics. This appeared ...

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Unlike previous synthetic cells, which could carry out only individual tasks, SpudCell combines several of the key processes ...

Researchers from the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas studied a range of adults, aged 19 to 94 ...

The New Forest National Park receives more than 15 million visits a year. If everyone used the great outdoors as their great outhouse, there would be 200 tonnes of poop dumped in the environment – and ...

The research determined that even if every other cause of ageing was removed, the buildup of naturally occurring genetic ...

Shaped like a butterfly, the thyroid sits at the bottom of your neck, just in front of your windpipe. It may be small, but the hormones it produces influence important bodily functions such as heart ...

Scientists have found dozens of new species during a survey of one of Africa’s last unexplored biodiversity regions. The ...

A nose-scratch here and an ear-tug there? The way we look for signs of lying is all wrong, according to expert interrogators.