The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun, and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are ...

On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor at the University of Oslo, decided to stay in and complete a tedious task that he had been putting off for ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series of controlled experiments, a Swiss Brown cow (Bos taurus) named Veronika ...