Self-recognition, it has been argued, is a hallmark of advanced cognitive abilities in animals. It was previously thought that only the usual suspects of higher cognition--some great apes, dolphins, and elephants--were able to recognize their own bodies

The bogus messages, which claim to be from the CNN.com news Web site, include links to what are supposedly the day's Top 10 news stories and Top 10 news video clips from the cable network.

A look at what most of us do when we create passwords, and how to create safer ones. Also, exploring alternative secure log-in methodologies.

SCIENCE MAY be dominated by men, but when it comes to the study of man's closest cousins, the great apes and primates, the majority of experts are female.

The sky over Canada is blazing. Nature in one of its outstanding representations. Worth watching.

Guess who made the anthrax antidote? - Bayer Dealing anthrax and other biological weapons to Iraq: James Baker, Donald Rumsfeld, and George H.W. Bush It's just business The US news media is unlikely to ask the most obvious question about

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seven years after anthrax-laced letters terrorized an already frightened nation, a new suspect suddenly emerged in the public eye this week. But he was gone just as quickly, committing suicide before he could be charged with murder,

Ether,acts by van der Waals forces in hydrophobic pockets of select brain proteins to ablate consciousness.Features of consciousness have defied conventional,explanations.The main driving force in protein folding occurs as uncharged non-polar amino acids

A top US scientist suspected of anthrax attacks in 2001 has died from an apparent suicide just as he was about to be charged, a newspaper reported

Operating with little ethical oversight, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been tapping cutting-edge advances in neuroscience, computers and robotics in a quest to build the "perfect warfighter."