By Choe Sang-Hun The deceased lay wrapped in a cotton blanket, surrounded by white roses and hydrangea, angelic figurines and lit candles...

By Emily Anthes Most students at the Biological Sciences Building at Duke University are trying to master the finer points of cellular...

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By Seth Kugel All dogs, it must be said, are born great. Most achieve greatness in their own waggy ways. But some — like Shola, a...

By Seth Kugel He sits forlornly on a floating staircase, his body slightly slumped and his limbs in his lap, gazing out floor-to-ceiling...

By Pamela Paul It’s not easy not being a dog person. Everyone loves a person who loves a dog. Dog people are fun-loving and down to...

By Emily Anthes Over the last two decades, a flurry of scientific studies have demonstrated, over and over again, that dogs are social...

Max, a 2-year-old German shepherd, Belgian Malinois and husky mix, photographed in Greenlake Park in Seattle on June 14, 2024. Scientists...