The question for today is whether animals can time travel. Mentally time travel, that is. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to the ability of one’s thoughts to travel backward and forward in ...

A certain white rabbit and his legendary drive for punctuality aside, scientists don't really know much about animals' sense of time. How aware of time are they? Do they apply past experiences to ...

An essay titled "Animal sentience: history, science, and politics" by Andrew Rowan and his colleagues is an excellent state-of-the-art summary of what we know and don’t know about sentience in ...

The common denominator unifying creatures is the passing of time. After all, the same sun rises and sets in its daily cycle for all of us. Right? Wrong. Some creatures live in their own bubbles of ...

Last week, the 65th of World War II, the U. S. art world seemed to find a new interest in life. Unable to face man’s inhumanity to man, artists and gallerygoers agreed that war was the time to ...

Humans! They do like their words. Studies–by scientists who stuck recording devices on them and then counted–suggest that they speak some 16,000 words a day. Vervet monkeys, prairie dogs and European ...

When the total solar eclipse happens on Monday, animals at homes, farms and zoos may act strangely. Researchers can’t wait to see what happens when day quickly turns to night. By Juliet Macur and ...

These insects are the absolute champions of fast time perception, processing changes 300 times per second compared to humans ...

The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study. The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time ...