A new study puts cuttlefish at center stage with the famous "marshmallow test," and shows that these soft-bodied hunters have what it takes.

As the Year of the Horse begins, Bvlgari Hotel Shanghai joins hands with the Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation to launch 'Magnificent Dreams', a charitable youth arts education program. The ...

What if you could employ land snails in a similar zero-waste system? Instead of homegrown vegetables, the ultimate yield for your table would be escargots, those glistening nuggets of protein. Yes, ...

For Anil Seth, another prominent neuroscientist, consciousness is a “controlled hallucination” because we never experience objective reality, whether externally in the world or within our minds. The ...

Nature has always loved surprises. Just when we think we understand how the world works, an animal comes along and quietly breaks all the rules. Some creatures glow in the dark, some survive without ...

A neutron star’s teaspoon of material would weigh billions of tons. Venus rotates backwards compared to most planets. Space smells like seared steak, according to astronauts. There are more trees on ...

On this day of ritualised human seduction, consider the love life of the Australian giant cuttlefish. They’re pretty weird when it comes to wooing, as you might expect of an animal with three hearts, ...

One of the clearest examples of colour loss comes from coral reefs. Their symbiotic algae is responsible for their vivid ...

What is loneliness and why do we feel it? Sophie and Neil discuss how feeling lonely can help us to survive ...