The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the opposite direction, ensuring a clean getaway, they said in a finding that helps explain why flies so easily evade swipes from their human [...]

As I was scrolling through Google News, an article titled “Microsoft vs. Google” added 9 hours ago caught my eye. How could a title like that not? Clicking through, I was taken to this article: Now hang on a second, Google can’t even crawl the latest news properly anymore? Surely it’s smart enough to carry [...]

A gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby’s body several days after it died of unknown causes. The gorilla at a German zoo has been carrying around her dead baby since he died last week. Allwetter Zoo spokeswoman Ilona Zuehlke says the 3-month-old [...]

A monkey stopped morning commuters in their tracks at one Tokyo’s busiest subway stations this week, as it curiously peered down at them from its perch atop the departures and arrivals board. Monday marked the third time a monkey has been spotted in the capital this month — surprising, because the beasts usually live in [...]

A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, family members and the hospital director said. Ghazala Khamis was in good condition after having a blood transfusion during her Caesarean section due to bleeding, said Emad Darwish, director of the El-Shatbi Hospital where she gave birth. The newborns, [...]

A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it’s not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York’s Coney Island amusement park. The scene using robotic dolls is an installation built by artist Steve Powers to criticize waterboarding, a simulated drowning [...]