Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a beach or a panda somersaulting, actually lights up the same brain areas as ...

We love watching baby animals discover their world, especially when they’re as adorably cute as these Highland mini-cow ...

Make sure your sound is on so you can hear one of the brand-new babies adorably welcoming the farmer home after a long day.

“Motherese” is the cutesy language we use around preverbal infants. It serves important roles in language development and emotional coregulation. But why do we use it with animals? Domestication ...

One of the top reasons that pets end up in shelters is that owners are expecting a baby. Somewhere along the line, a rumor started that you can’t have both — a new baby and a pet. But that’s simply ...

The days of trash-talking raccoons may be coming to an end. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Zoology found that city-dwelling raccoons are showing early signs of domestication — and ...

After a long day of work, errands, the gym and chores, there is genuinely nothing like crawling into bed. When everything is finally checked off your to-do list, climbing underneath your blankets and ...

Last Word is New Scientist’s long-running series in which readers give scientific answers to each other’s questions, ranging from the minutiae of everyday life to absurd astronomical hypotheticals. To ...