Dogs, Unlike Wolves, Are Born to Communicate With People
Wolf puppies can’t understand human gestures as well as their dog cousins. The difference could help explain what makes dogs so special. ..
Wolf puppies can’t understand human gestures as well as their dog cousins. The difference could help explain what makes dogs so special. ..
Dozens of viruses don't use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this is possible—and perhaps more common than ..
Scale markings reveal that this weird fish's lifespan is double what scientists first estimated. That also means they’re closer to extinction than we thought. ..
Aristolochia microstoma finds love by smelling like death. Coffin flies can’t resist. ..
Some of nature’s simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved long before centralized nervous systems. ..
Coral in the Red Sea is unusually heat tolerant. The secret to its success may lie in the lucky confluence of geography and genetics. ..
Researchers only get a chance to study Brood X every 17 years. WIRED came for the ride—and got up close to thousands of hatching cicadas. ..
New work shows that the proteins, long treated as boring spools for DNA, are key to the origin story for eukaryotes and still play important roles in disease. ..
For male tanager birds, carotenoid feather pigments just aren't flashy enough. They have another way to make their colors really pop. ..
Understanding how other animals dream could help us figure out why it’s so important to the human brain, and why it may have been preserved throughout ..