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Julia B. Linares-Roake explores how people navigate the muddiness of living with dogs from their point of view as we over-control how they play and express their "dogness." ...

In a new experiment, raccoons continued opening fresh doors and latches on a puzzle box even after they had claimed the food reward inside. That persistence is a bit perplexing. Researchers think the ...

The researchers were hoping to understand whether our own species' long documented appreciation (bordering on obsession) with crystals ...

ELRIG, a not-for-profit, volunteer-led organization dedicated to the global drug discovery community, today announced the keynote speakers for Advances in Cell-based Screening 2026, taking place at ...

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Katherine Heigl says the charity event was about helping animals as critics question her appearance at Mar-a-Lago.