Gaming as grown-ups

LIFE IS FULL OF HAZARDS FOR EVERY WILD animal – and injuries involving open wounds can often lead to a slow death from infection, unless licking the site alone is sufficient to keep it bacteria-free.

Jenny Ackland criss-crosses the world to take a look at the clever ways that humans and animals can live together.

THE BLACK-CAPPED chickadee is wonderfully onomatopoeic. When the diminutive songbird, which is Canada’s answer to the great tit, spots a great-horned owl perched in a tree, it broadcasts a shrill ‘chi

Mankind may be tribal and sociable by nature, yet the ‘bliss of solitude’–a state previously reserved for hermits– is the key to achieving inner peace, says Laura Parker

Are we suffering from a human form of zoochosis?

How staying active builds cognitive resilience in later life