Researchers analyzed human motivation from an evolutionary perspective, identifying 15 key motives that drive behavior.

New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn't prevent further exploration, even if it reduces performance.

Researchers at HSE University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have identified 15 key motives that ...

A new study shows that giving mice the human version of a gene changes their squeak, suggesting some of the genetic ...

Sometimes the most well-intentioned actions can have unintended consequences. Local resident issues plea for strange and ...

"Is it a [rite] of passage?" Hiker sparks debate with photo of dangerous behavior in national forest: 'I'll use my own best ...

Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said that his AI startup is racing to secure the computing power needed to meet demand for its generative AI chatbot Claude. “The surge in demand ...

Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built Homo naledi. A pinkie ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The morning after a fresh snowfall, you’ve probably once walked out of your home and spotted paw prints meandering ... to the hand of a human baby.

“If you think about what we might expect humans to accomplish in an area like biology in 100 years, I think a doubling of the human lifespan is not at all crazy,” he said yesterday (Jan ...