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A fascinating study proves your dog really does miss you.

A team of Japanese researchers have published a study showing that dogs release more tears when they are reunited with their owners versus other people.

In a newly announced partnership with Texas biotech company Colossal Biosciences, Australian researchers are hoping their dream to bring back the extinct thylacine is a “giant leap” closer to fruition.

When you hear about the gut microbiome, does it ever make you wonder what tiny creatures are teeming inside your own body? As a microbiologist who studies the microbiomes of plants, animals and people, I’ve watched public interest in gut microbes grow alongside research on their possible dramatic influence on…

In the early 1990s, British neuroscientist Karl Friston was poring over brain scans. The scans produced terabytes of digital output, and Friston had to find new techniques to sort and classify the massive flows of data.

We're getting periods earlier and reaching menopause later. What's that doing to our bodies?

A study looks at how human loss of vocal membranes, which are present in primates, simplified the larynx and led to the capability of more sophisticated speech.

The authors created the mouse-rat chimeras by injecting rat PSCs into mouse embryos.

Children, even some who are too young for school, know you can’t make a baby without sperm and an egg. But a team of researchers in Israel have called into question the basics of what we teach children about the birds and the bees, and created a mouse embryo using…