New Caledonian crows may find tool use fun, according to a new study. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Getting food is nice. But scoring that food through clever tool use is even ...

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She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the ocean to eat the bait — a never-before-seen behavior that could constitute the first ...

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers have made this groundbreaking discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

Two whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. CREDIT: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 270. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

An analysis of over 41 million research papers from the past 40 years has revealed that researchers who use artificial ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...

After a cardiac arrest, families and doctors are often faced with agonizing uncertainty about a patient's chances of recovery ...

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...