Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a ...

One of the most fundamental ideas in physics is that the disorder of the universe, also known as entropy, is constantly ...

In a playtime experiment, scientists found that apes, our closest living relatives, have the capacity for make-believe, too.

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

A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do. Scientists studied a bonobo named Kanzi who was raised in captivity and became a whiz at communicating with humans using ...

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