For the first time since the 1970’s, NASA is sending a crew to the moon, but the astronauts won’t set foot on the surface. Here’s why the landing will have to wait.

For many dogs, rolling in dead stuff is an olfactory delight. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week's question comes from Dustin in ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Jordan Lawlar came off a hot spring training, needing to show he can consistently deliver results at the major league level. And in an otherwise-ugly 8-2 blowout loss ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human infants’ helplessness may help explain cooperation, learning and social development, researchers argue. (CREDIT: ...

Growing up in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, new Florida women's basketball coach Tammi Reiss never backed down from challenges. The resort area was renowned for its blue-chip basketball ...

Adoption usually starts with a human pointing at a cage and saying, “That one.” But what if the choice went the other way around? Not in theory, not in some feel-good slogan, but literally. That ...

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“Infants are unique in having their eyes and ears open, and in developing in a longer period of care. It could be that this period of helplessness is important to making us who we are as a species," ...

Everyone knows the old adage about dogs being man's best friend, but you may not know that dogs might also be one of man's best hopes to treat age-related illnesses. That's because our canines develop ...

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