Do elephants weep? You, your dog and your oxytocin. The "Lake of Death." And, everything you need to know about salamanders. This week's top nature and science news.

Wind industry and conservationists collide, a mummified Egyptian dog had parasites, and if you dress like an animal, no zoo for you. This week's top nature and science news.

Rhesus monkeys make a home in Florida, behavior in crickets tied to their parasites, using DNA to determine to big cat inbreeding, and how termite excrement keeps them disease-free. This week's top nature and science ...

Chimps Raised as Orphans Lack Social Skills. A recent study serves to underline the importance of mothers in forming the important social skills of chimpanzees. Several orphaned chimps which were raised by humans until ...

A look back: Nature premiered in 1982 as the brainchild of George Page, then THIRTEEN's director of science programming. Its first episode, Flight of the Condor, featured stunning cinematography of the condor as it migrated ...

Early Mars May Have Had Essential Element for Life. The speculation over whether Mars once had an environment suitable for life took another turn recently as experiments showed that certain phosphates are more abundant ...

Composting is the combining and managing of specific waste materials so that they decompose. Once the materials are mixed together, microbes in the soil will start to breakdown the waste and turn it into the nutrient ...

Conservationists’ War on Rats. Isolated islands throughout the world have served as ideal habitats for untold generations of seabirds. But when human explorers began visiting these islands in the 17th and 18th centuries, ...