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A spotted hyena carrying the spine of an antelope giggles as it avoids a higher-ranking group-mate. The picture was taken by a research team led by Kay Holekamp of Michigan State University.

Male elephants of breeding age - over 28 years old - make up more than 5 percent of well-protected populations. Where populations have been over-exploited, this percentage declines to 1 percent or less. Males that resemble Amboseli National Park's "Tolstoy" are unlikely to live to pass on their genes for large tusks.

Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.

Cambridge, Mass. February 1, 2010 - Daycare workers and kindergarten teachers tend to offer young humans a lot of coaching about the idea of sharing. But for our ape cousins the bonobos, sharing just comes naturally. In fact, according to a pair of papers published by researchers at Harvard University and Duke University in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, it looks like bonobos never learn how not to share.

A senior with a keen interest in social justice has been named the recipient of the 2009 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the highest awards given to Princeton undergraduates.

Bern - Universität Bern Genetiker der Universität Bern haben eine Genmutation gefunden, die bei Schafen zur Kleinäugigkeit führt.

An archaeologist from the University of Sheffield, whose research has revolutionised our knowledge of Stonehenge, has been awarded a further £800,000 grant to discover exactly how the people who built the stone circle lived, what they ate and where they came from.

Several hundred million Euro investment to combat climate change and its effects on people's lives Creation of Climate Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) signals Europe's commitment to tackling

Since 2000, more than 800 children from the Fairhill and West Kensington neighborhoods of North Philadelphia have participated in a unique community-based after school and summer arts program run by Centro Nueva Creacion: The Goodlands®.

An unmanned NASA satellite will soon survey the entire sky to discover millions of uncharted stars and galaxies, asteroids, and planetary "construction zones," providing valuable new information on our solar system, the Milky Way and the universe.

Despite being in the hospital, pediatric patients at Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA will still get to celebrate Halloween by dressing up in costumes, face-painting and watching a magic show.

Exhibition features 35 of artist's 'Soundsuits,' wearable mixed-media sculptures One of artist Nick Cave's "Soundsuits" featured in the exhibition (courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, and Fowler Museum at UCLA) "Whether Nick Cave's efforts qualify as fashion, body art or sculpture .

Cambridge, Mass. September 16, 2009 - A new analysis of extinct sea creatures suggests that the transition from egg-laying to live-born young opened up evolutionary pathways that allowed these ancient species to adapt to and thrive in open oceans. The evolutionary sleuthing is described this week in the journal Nature by scientists at Harvard University and the University of Reading who also report that the evolution of live-born young depended crucially on the advent of genes - rather than incubation temperature - as the primary determinant of offspring sex.

School?s cool for summer, say 4,000 holiday visitors to Imperial Summer school pupils get a taste of real science in top university labs - %0A " Tuesday 25 August By Abigail Smith A summer break spen

BERKELEY — A University of California, Berkeley, project to catalog nearly every living thing on the Polynesian island of Moorea is enlisting the help of the island's 5th graders and showing them that science is not for foreigners only.

Cambridge, Mass. June 2, 2009 - New research shows some bees brace themselves against wind and turbulence by extending their sturdy hind legs while flying. But this approach comes at a steep cost, increasing aerodynamic drag and the power required for flight by roughly 30 percent, and cutting into the bees' flight performance.

Princeton geoscientist Gerta Keller and a research team have compiled new evidence disproving a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.

BERKELEY — For those who think of nature as a wild, unspoiled Eden that preserves the natural flora and fauna free from human interference, global warming has a nasty surprise in store, according to University of California, Berkeley, biologist Anthony Barnosky.

Imperial scientist commended for using fewer animals in research Researcher commended in NC3Rs prize - Friday 27 February 2009 By Lucy Goodchild A researcher exploring dangerous blood clots in the lungs has been recognised for his contributions to reducing the number of mice used in experiments.