There are many things that set humans apart from other animals, but few of them are as notable as our ability to communicate.

NPR science podcast Short Wave brings us the stories of how Fiddler crabs drum their mating songs into the sand, growing chicken nuggets in the lab, and a drug like LSD -- without the trip.

As long as there have been forests, there have been natural events that change them. To understand the effects of the recent ice storm, it may help to review forest form and function. Forests are ...

Fishing report compiled by California Outdoors Hall of Fame member Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, who guides in the ...

Valentine’s Day 1984, the day that transformed the lives of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, started early. “We were going to perform in the main arena in the evening and the last practice was at ...

And in February, scientists reported for the first time that brand-new nerves in adult mouse brains appeared to ... It peaks in the spring, when the need to mate demands the most of a suitor ...

Student scientists in now-defunded KU and Haskell programs showcased their work Thursday, sharing research ranging from depression treatments for veterans and proteins’ impact on tumor cells to gene ...

Connections made via apical synapses seemed to be strengthened by movement information more than those made via basal ...

The virus is often transmitted through the air when people sweep out sheds or clean closets where mice have been living, or by eating food contaminated with mouse droppings. It is not ...

In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...