Research funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research is helping give sniffer dogs the skills needed to detect complex modern explosives. Matthew Stock reports.

A start-up is rolling out smart dog houses with the aim of maximizing the time city-dwellers spend with their dogs. Elly Park reports.

Smooth-coated otters learn to get food by copying how others in their group perform tasks, according to what's thought to be the first study into social learning in the species, as Jim Drury reports.

With a worrying number of children who play contact sports in the US reporting having had concussion, doctors and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle are developing an app to make d ...

Paralysed rats have overcome their spinal cord injury to walk again in experiments conducted by Israel's Technion institute of technology and Tel Aviv University, as Jim Drury reports.

Researchers in Singapore have found a way round the frustrating task of framing and taking photos using consumer drones. Matthew Stock reports