The HEARTS Act directs the NIH to provide incentives to researchers to use non-animal methods whenever feasible and applicable, and establishes a dedicated center within the NIH devoted to advancing ...

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

Baboons failed to recognize themselves in mirrors, suggesting limited self-awareness compared to some animals.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink suggests that a human patient might have successfully used the company’s brain chip to remotely control a robot. A short video clip posted Thursday shows a robot arm ...

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Jaco Visser/Shutterstock.com The tsetse fly is the first of several insects to make our list of the 10 deadliest animals in the world. As is the case for the bugs to come, it is not the actual bite of ...

01/29/2025 January 29, 2025 During the colonial period, a German merchant Carl Hagenbeck was one of the first to display humans alongside animals in zoos, and he quickly became a successful ...

a looming bird flu pandemic and AI arms race for the update. The Chicago-based nonprofit created the Doomsday Clock in 1947 during the Cold War tensions that followed World War II to warn the ...

These frameworks, aligned with international, European, and national export control systems, have been increasingly shaped by efforts to ensure accountability for arms transfers that result in adverse ...

Human trafficking, arms smuggling, drug smuggling, cattle, and other livestock trafficking are among the major trans-border crimes. A Border Security Force (BSF) officer informed Saturday evening that ...

When the cold and dark winter is setting in, some of us envy animals that can hibernate ... But hibernation has closer links to human history than you might expect. An article in a copy of the British ...