The courtship that has riveted the neuroscience world blossomed at a Saturday night dinner in a tony Brentwood, Calif., restaurant. » read more

LOS ANGELES-A rapid shift in climate that brought wetter and warmer conditions in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age helped propel innovation and cultural advances in early man, a study has found. » read more

A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth - but with the majority of its furred passengers apparently dead. » read more