Learn how cotton candy is created through a controlled sugar-spinning experiment inspired by unconventional household methods ...

Watch a unique cooking experiment where ribs are prepared using the heat from a car engine as an unconventional outdoor ...

The largest great ape cognition dataset combines 18 years of studies to reveal patterns in learning, memory, and intelligence ...

Each year on April 24, scientists, advocates, and policymakers around the world mark World Day for Laboratory Animals—a ...

What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold ...

We were pleasantly surprised by how strong and seemingly natural the chimpanzees’ attraction to crystals was.” ...

Scientists speculate that human eyes stand out more than chimpanzee eyes because there’s an advantage for humans in being ...

Drumming and singing at the same time is impressive, whether you’re Karen Carpenter, Ringo Starr or a chimpanzee. Japanese ...

Researchers have documented a permanent split between the largest-known group of wild chimpanzees, which erupted into a lethal civil war over the past several years — findings that could help ...

The largest group of wild chimpanzees known to scientists has permanently split in two. In a study published in Science, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and other institutions ...

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it. By Carl Zimmer Since 1995, scientists have tracked a huge group of chimpanzees living ...

Researchers learned this the hard way. They gave quartz, calcite and other crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up ...