Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party. Kanzi could play along, they found.

On September 7, the Chinese fishing trawler Minjinyu 5179 refused an order by Japan’s coast guard to leave disputed waters ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is behind the sun from Earth's point of view in space — scientists began planning ...

Scientists showed for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability previously thought to ...

Imagination may not be uniquely human. A new study shows an ape tracking pretend objects, reshaping ideas about cognition and evolution.

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can ...

Apes can use imaginary objects in the same way as human children, new research suggests. A series of tea party-like ...

Scientists sat across from a 43-year-old bonobo called Kanzi to have an imaginary tea party. Here’s what happened. View on ...

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ...

Major reforms to the United Kingdom’s national research funding agency are aimed at boosting the nation’s economy.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific ...