Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics through motion experiments, and earth science through field observations. That ...

Austrian researchers say they've found the first known example of tool use by cattle, courtesy of a Swiss-Brown cow named Veronika. Scientists have documented a lot of animals that use tools, like ...

Cows can now be counted among the animals shown to use tools deliberately – and to adapt them to different tasks. In a series of controlled experiments, a Swiss Brown cow (Bos taurus) named Veronika ...

Humpback whales might be a lot smarter than we first thought, scientists have found. These marine giants may create and wield their own tools, according to a new paper in the journal Royal Society ...

A new study has found that individual sea otters that use tools — most of whom are female — are able to eat larger prey and reduce tooth damage when their preferred prey becomes depleted. Image by ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...