Researchers identified two brain areas in mice that helped the animals learn to suppress their instinctive fears of predators ...

Despite their groundbreaking and jaw-dropping visual effects work, the Apes movies have yet to win a best VFX Oscar. Will this year’s 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' at last break through?

That is a little over 3% of the average sun-Earth distance. The effect of this seasonal variation on the planet's climate is negligible; Earth's seasons are dictated by the tilt of Earth's axis ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.

And, in fact, an even greater opportunity lies in the months ahead, when yet another planet joins the "parade." Which planets will be visible in January? Jan. 25 is a good time to look at the arc ...

WALL-E is a sweet movie about a couple of lonesome robots who just might be able to resurrect a long-trash planet Earth. It starts simply, with no dialogue: Humans have abandoned Earth because it ...

An exciting celestial show has come to brighten your week You should, in theory, be able to see the planet parade from your backyard in the night sky. However, city folk will have a harder time ...

NEW DELHI – A jumbo operation is moving 20 elephants across the breadth of India to the mammoth private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest man, adjoining a sprawling oil refinery.

Court says elephants not human, cannot seek freedom Animal rights group says decision perpetuates an injustice Zoo called lawsuit frivolous, cites earlier rulings Jan 22 (Reuters) - Five elderly ...

"These multi-planet viewing opportunities aren't super rare, but they don't happen every year, so it's worth checking it out," NASA added. A sky chart shows the planetary lineup visible after dark ...