Animals played a significant role in ancient Greek life, initially for practical use and gradually extending beyond that.

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

Human reading looks so ordinary that it is easy to treat it as the default way brains extract meaning from marks. Yet when I ...

In an era of climate uncertainty, Irish weather lore points to something we risk losing: the habit of paying attention to what nature is telling us, writes Karol Mullaney Dignam ...

Long before meteorology and climate science, Irish people looked to the natural world to forecast the weather and make sense ...

From metaphors for our behavior to demonstrations of our superior status, we use animals to help define ourselves.

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do.

For decades, autism research compared autistic people to animals, denied them moral sensitivity, and assumed autistic traits ...

The year 2025 began with grim news. On 1st January, a baby elephant was struck and killed by a train in Habarana, marking the ...

Sri Lanka is blessed with a large number of scenic waterfalls, mainly concentrated in the central highlands. These natural ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some ...

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