T HE FEDERAL government’s assault on Minneapolis continues but, for the past few days, it is Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe campaign to rid America of illegal immigrants that has seemed under siege.

Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of salt? Your dog’s slobbery tongue lolling out the side of its mouth on a hot ...

We often think we know more than we actually do. While four in five Americans consider themselves knowledgeable about the human body, only one in ten knows that O-negative is the universal blood type, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veronika, a Swiss brown cow living in Austria. Antonio J Osuna Mascaro Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

A deck brush can be a good tool for the right task. Just ask Veronika, the Brown Swiss cow. Veronika uses both ends of a deck brush to scratch various parts of her body, researchers report January 19 ...

Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself with sticks, rakes, and deck brushes. Now that scientists ...

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only. The ...

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A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. By Emily Anthes For a cow, Veronika has had what might ...

Researchers are studying how hospitable our universe is to creating life. It’s related to the density of dark energy, which impacts star formation and the chances of life forming. The idea is that ...