A new study suggests that college students may handle stressful situations better if they have a pet. Research has already shown that pets can improve the quality of life for people who are aging or those who are chronically ill. But researchers have recently found that many college students may also benefit from owning a cat or a dog. 

While cats and dogs pose certain health issues for humans, most are well known and well mitigated by veterinarians and doctors unlike the risks posed by certain other pets.

Many boards are finicky about the most common of household pets. But what about the uncommon kind? Do the rules say no iguanas?

A novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has just been developed. This discovery opens promising prospects for the study of chemical and biological systems.

A new study suggests that evolution can behave as differently as dogs and cats. While the dogs depend on an energy-efficient style of four-footed running over long distances to catch their prey, cats seem to have evolved a profoundly inefficient gait, tailor-made to creep up on a mouse or bird in slow motion.