Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Sometimes, the sweetest friendships begin in silence. This cute baby monkey slowly approaches a human with curiosity—and something beautiful begins. A gentle bond between species, built on trust, play ...

Readers Edition. This is the (nearly) annual tradition of you, RPS readers, telling us where we went wrong in our annual ...

There’s no longer a valid excuse for the oboes being a bar behind at wind band rehearsal because a new study has found that even macaque monkeys can learn to tap along to the beat of human music.

For the study, the researchers worked with two adult male macaques that had previously been trained to tap in time with a metronome. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 With a ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Bones and tools found in a Sri Lankan cave show how Homo sapiens adapted to dense rainforest environments as early as 45,000 years ago. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Deep in the rainforest, the monkeys are yodeling. Their wild calls echo across the foliage, sending signals of sex and survival. For decades, scientists have studied why they make these sounds, but ...

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...

Bones and tools found in a Sri Lankan cave show how Homo sapiens adapted to dense rainforest environments as early as 45,000 years ago.