While the study focused on mice, the findings could shed light on human interactions and the neuronal pathways that affect our behavior. “You may think that being dominant in the animal kingdom is all ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has earned a prestigious National Science Foundation award to use computers to better understand human behavior and social interaction. Ifeoma Nwogu, an ...

Humans and other animals actively sense their surrounding environment. This entails the deliberate adjustment of motor ...

Because same-sex sexual behavior does not result in offspring, evolutionary biologists have long wondered how the genes associated with this behavior have persisted in the human genome, and whether ...

A study published in Molecular Psychiatry found that brain volume changes correlate with social behavior differences in psychiatric conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia. The ...

Never underestimate the mind of a crow. Members of a family of birds that includes ravens, rooks, magpies, and jays, crows have been known to bend wire into hooks to retrieve food; drop nuts in a road ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain were active throughout the day with single-cell resolution.

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and ...

Researchers describe doomscrolling as a kind of “vicarious trauma,” where people absorb secondhand stress from news events ...

A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, reports that Italian bears living in areas with many villages evolved and became ...