Everyone is talking about AI right now. A popular topic of conversation is whether AI will ever become conscious. But what exactly do we mean by consciousness? Consciousness is hard to define. To put ...

Comparing animal welfare across species is fraught with conceptual and empirical challenges. 1 However, we know some progress has been made as we’ve learned how to identify the large differences in ...

Facing a sharp backlash over his remarks in a recent TV interview, boxer and politician Manny Pacquiao has apologized for saying that people who are in gay relationships are "worse than animals." Here ...

Manny Pacquiao apologized Tuesday for comparing homosexuals to animals, saying that even though he’s still against gay marriage, he doesn’t condemn anyone in the LGBT community and he prays for them. ...

On Wednesday, PETA released a new ad comparing the forced breeding of animals to the rape of human women. The internet responded with collective outrage, condemning the organization's exploitation of ...

New study shows that chromosomes of carnivores (cats, dogs and bears) show similar 3-D structures despite being separated by over 50 million years of evolution. Photo credits: Clouded leopard, ...

Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested many millions of research dollars in attempts to create a robot that can walk or run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case that ...

In this activity, your child will play a game to match animals’ body parts. Together you will observe and compare body parts to match with other players’ animal cards. Then your child will explain the ...