When the International Space Station comes back to Earth in 2030, it will mark the end of three decades of peaceful ...

Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a ...

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice ...

Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps planning one. He bounces around the edges of the board, slowly filling it with ...

The North Carolina headquarters of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is moving to Europe and will ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

The three wolves Utah killed were not symbols or statistics,” writes Eric Clewis with Defenders of Wildlife in an op-ed.

Do apes have imagination? A tea party experiment offers clues - Scientists wondered whether Kanzi, the bonobo, had the ...

Hospital beds are a brutally concrete resource. When they're full, surgeries get delayed, hallways become overflow wards, and ...

What makes this moment striking is not merely China’s growing presence in the polar north, but the pathway that has led it there. In a twist of strategic irony, policies designed in Washington to ...

Consciousness studies is too much like the blind men with the elephant. Here's an explanation for the blind spot and how we ...