Next time you go in for a surgery, will your doctor be a five-foot tall, 60 pound humanoid robot named Surgie? It very well ...

Vaccinating against HIV has been a decades-long effort, stymied by the virus’s high mutation rate and mask of human glycans.

(Eric VOLTO/500px/Getty Images) Biologists have long believed that having a large brain, relative to your body, might go hand ...

In a world first, doctors successfully completed not one, but two surgeries with the use of remotely controlled humanoid ...

Two humanoid robots controlled from afar performed two surgeries at the University of California, San Diego.

Today we debate in law whether animals feel fear, pleasure, pain and distress. In 1872, Darwin was already there – reading ...

Until about 60,000 years ago, diminutive hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (affectionately nicknamed Hobbits for obvious ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Ecologists have described the mammoth steppe as one of the most productive large-herbivore ecosystems in Earth's history.