Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

A team of researchers has outlined a new approach for better understanding the depths of animal consciousness, a method that may yield new insights into the similarities and differences among living ...

Folklorist Timothy Tangherlini explains how certain basic human drives, coupled with social media, fuel the spread of ...

When animals and humans explore their surrounding environment or complete specific tasks, their brains simultaneously support both their mental (i.e., cognitive) processes and physical movements. For ...

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Imagine if digital matchmakers had no financial incentives.

Researchers have identified two distinct groups of neurons that help the brain evaluate risk and reward in decision-making.

Her fiction was miscast as merely transgressive. Rather, her novels were interested in understanding life in its most ...

More likely to fall through the cracks as kids, adult females are seeking autism diagnoses after years of searching for ...

Quasiparticles are collections of particles (and, in some cases, field lines) that can be described mathematically as if they ...

"I am a little wary of self-help books in general. They usually claim to transform the reader’s life by following just a few ...

St. Clair claims Musk is refusing to acknowledge his 13th (known!) child, while Musk has spent the last 24 hours tweeting ...