Voices blast from the past After a week of Oscars and their tricks, comes now a collection of others and their shticks: Brad Pitt, of whom you may have heard once, asked to play a role in director Guy ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is celebrating Earth Day with flair this year. Asian elephant calf Linh Mai will make her public debut at the zoo on April 22, appearing ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Wildlife poaching is a serious issue in many parts of the world. One way of monitoring ...

Husband-and-wife jazzy R&B duo Acute Inflections — singer Elasea Douglas, who goes by “eL,” and upright bassist Sadiki Pierre — will perform arrangements of jazz, soul and R&B classics and original ...

There is a moment we all miss. A moment so subtle, so ordinary, that it slips past unnoticed: The space between two heartbeats. For years, I moved through life without ever feeling it. I was busy, ...

It helps to put in perspective just how large a blue whale's tongue is by comparing it with something familiar. An adult African elephant can weigh anywhere from 2.5 to 7 metric tons, depending on its ...

Who are you when you lose everything? That is what director Jessica Stone has said is at the center of the stage musical version of “Water for Elephants.” Sounds like a major downer, doesn’t it? Well, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This story is incredible. It really has me choked up. Rosie is a baby elephant that has had a rough go of it. But the future ...

Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalizations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from ...

Elephants can communicate using very low frequency sounds, with pitches below the range of human hearing. These low-frequency sounds, termed "infrasounds", can travel several kilometers, and provide ...

African wildlife expert Rob the Ranger documents elephants communicating through low-frequency sounds. Brad Pitt opens up about embarrassing career moment that ‘still haunts him’ How to hard boil eggs ...