For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

Perhaps you've sat on the couch next to your dog and wondered: What do they see when they look up at the television screen? Are they as engaged as their human counterparts? Scientists at the ...

The staggering array of modern dog breeds is typically traced to the Victorian era. But half of all canine variation was in place roughly 10,000 years ago, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes As a ...

It’s so easy to lavish affection on our precious pups. We can’t resist kissing their cute faces, giving them belly rubs and scratching behind their ears. And they like it too—if we pause for just a ...

New research out of the United Kingdom suggests that the smell of human stress affects dogs’ emotions as well as their decisions, leading them to make more pessimistic choices. The study, published ...

The dogs on this bus go '"woof, woof, woof!" all day long. When Hope Mehlberg first started taking her dogs out for a walk after work, it was just to touch grass and relieve stress after a hectic day ...