Researchers say sloths aren't lazy, they're just "energy efficient." (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) Magill says that by examining these “lazy behaviors,” humans might learn how ...

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

Researchers at Georgia Tech study color-coded ants. This one's going to be yellow. Ants don't tend to get in traffic jams. They might butt heads (or antennae) momentarily as they go about their ...

I arrived home late, weary of a day loading and unloading my 500-pound suitcase. I walked in the door, thankful to be there, and wheeled my new ultra-lite spinner — that suddenly didn’t feel so light ...

The very definition of the word “sloth” is “an unwillingness to work or make any effort.” But some say we humans have these slow, shaggy beasts all wrong. “They are not lazy, they're energy efficient!

For more than 30 days, people in a northern Montenegro village have been lying down in the streets. It’s part of their annual “Laziest Citizen” contest that was created 12 years ago to mock the theory ...