When people are feeling playful, they giggle and laugh, making others around them want to laugh and play too. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on March 20 have found that the particularly ...

The Kentucky Education Association says they're bothered by statements Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin made Monday when he announced that he was vetoing the state budget bill and tax reform bill. Click here ...

Raoul Schwing remembers sitting on a New Zealand mountaintop, watching a kea hovering in front of him, just an arm’s reach away. The large green parrot had jumped into an updraft, and was flying into ...

If you've ever had a kea nibble your car tyre or seen the mountain parrot move a traffic cone for no earthly reason, you'd know -- these cheeky birds do things just because they want to. Living in New ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A new report says more Native Hawaiians should be included in the management of observatories on Mauna Kea. Above, a tourist walks the summit near telescopes. Greg Chun, executive director of the ...

LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) -- The Kentucky Education Association is calling on teachers to keep advocating for students and schools. The General Assembly won't return to Frankfort until April 13 and during ...

For the first time in birds, researchers say they have found evidence that a New Zealand parrot has the avian equivalent of an infectious laugh. They call it "positive emotional contagion" — which ...

When people are feeling playful, they giggle and laugh, making others around them want to laugh and play too. Now, researchers have found that the particularly playful kea parrot from New Zealand has ...