Engineers are starting to build hardware that does not just run artificial intelligence, it behaves like a primitive form of ...

But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

The cerebellum facilitates associative learning—wherein visual information is linked to motor actions—by strengthening sustained visual responses. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

The human brain must be able to link memory content to the circumstances in which it occurs. Researchers in Bonn have now discovered how the human brain uses two different groups of neurons to store ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life. Industrial environments overstimulate our stress systems and erode both ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Want to change your behavior? How about your consumers' behavior? A new Georgetown study reveals how overlooked cues are the ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. Horses and humans have had a close relationship for thousands of years, but did you know that horses, along with other animals, are being used to help ...