I spent a year of college teaching rats to find their way through a maze, and now I find that slime molds, which don't even have brains, can do the same thing! Professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Japan's Future University Ha...

Minnesotastan's mother was a member of American Airlines 1941 graduating class for the fairly new profession called "stewardess." She passed along some interesting tidbits about the business in those days, such as ho...

For years scientists have known that each parrot has a unique call that other birds use to address them, but now they've discovered that the parents of the species are responsible for naming their chicks. They observ...

We all have cell phones (oops, sorry, "smart&...  ...Paul of The New York Times noticed how modern day communications is now shying away from the telephone: It’s...

Why doesn't your husband understand you? A new res...  ...g too close to another person may actually hamper communications :The spouses consistently overestimated their abil...

Animals communicate with each other in ways we can't imagine, but there are a few we've figured out. Oh, we can't translate everything yet, but we know how some do it. Environmental Graffiti looks at five animals that ha...

Like to chat and tweet? Try Qvaq. It's a brand new and very neat web app, made by Robert Birming (a Neatoramanaut and fellow blogger at Geek Alerts) and Martin Lindkvist, that makes discussion and collaborations in real...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN5igku_kGk][YouTube - Link]The Kenyan honeyguide bird has an unusual and very remarkable behavior: it engages in an interspecies collaboration with humans to locate African bee co...