Scientists have spent decades underestimating bees. New lab experiments suggest they can count, teach each other tricks, and may even feel fear and joy.

An AP investigation found that adopted children make up an estimated 25 to 40 percent of kids in for-profit residential treatment centers, where private equity profits depend on keeping them there as long as possible.

A New York Times reporter spent the final days at a Pennsylvania dairy farm that has been in the same family since before the Civil War, ending with an auction attended by Amish families and cattle dealers.

A startup founder got FDA acknowledgment that her daily pill is likely to extend dogs' lives. Dogs, she argues, are just the first stop on the road to human longevity medicine.