A 30-year study finds that female bonobos dominate males through alliances, clever tactics, and full control over food and ...

Science news this week includes the hints of life on a distant planet and a "useless" female organ that is anything but. | ...

Vietnam war veteran Joe Haldeman is a human time machine. Now 81 and probably the world's greatest living sci-fi author, he has an unequalled record of predicting the future.

A powerful list of books that influenced Jane Goodall’s journey—each title shaped her thoughts on animals, science, justice, ...

Experiencing weightlessness and seeing the planet from so high up sounds exhilarating ... Nasa had an amazing female scientist – Dr Katherine Calvin, a climate scientist researching how to ...

For decades, it has been a mystery why females in this species of great apes ... in the hierarchy. Now, scientists say they’ve found the secret to this paradox: Female bonobos maintain power ...

"Any claim of life on another planet requires a lot of justification, and I don't think we're there yet, Måns Holmberg, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute who was part of the ...

Interestingly, males sometimes participated in the female coalitions against other males, but the scientists note that ... “This reinforces the idea that apes and humans are very innovative ...

For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...