Bruce, a kea parrot missing his entire upper beak, achieved alpha male status with the aid of an innovative lower-beak jousting technique. Grabham et al. demonstrate that behavioural innovation can he...

Landing two large grants caused Anna Sandak to take on a managerial role in her team and made her reflect on what it means to contribute to research.

From ballet studio to behavioural science: researchers uncover the best view for learning choreography.

Condition in Italian centers should be a “wake-up call” for EU return hub plans, NGO says.

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Fatima et al. identify a specialized sensory pathway in mice in which Piezo2-expressing TLR5Calb1 Aβ-LTMRs innervate vellus-like hairs to drive both acute and chronic mechanical itch, revealing a dedi...

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In queste settimane, seguendo il Campionato Mondiale di calcio, mi sono accorto che passavo quasi più tempo a leggere i giornali, i commenti sui social e le polemiche che a guardare le partite. Non ce...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.

Sulla copertina rosso fuoco si leggono il nome dell'autore, “Giovanni Testori”, il titolo, “Luchino”, e – oltre al nome dell'editore, ovvero Feltrinelli – si precisa che il libro è “A cura di Giovanni...

Social cohesion varies across species. Solitary animals minimise social contact to reduce costs such as resource competition, aggression, and disease transmission. Solitary Testudo hatchlings can rely...

A highly efficient navigation strategy taking inspiration from the visual learning flights of honeybees is described, which enables drones to quickly return from longer flights by means of path integr...