While probing the escape reflex in the fruit fly Drosophila, researchers at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) and the ...

Plastic and thus modifiable neurons lose their function at old age, new research in fruit flies reveals.

AI will serve humanity only if we endow our creations with moral restraint rather than mathematical optimization.

Koch, who studied vision, thought that by measuring people's brain responses as they looked at special optical illusions, scientists could figure out which parts of the brain are activated when ...

It's random noise to adults but social shorthand for Gen Alpha. Before blaming them, the author argues, look at the culture ...

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with that help them survive, finds a new paper led by Queen Mary University of ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

The acquisition and expression of Pavlovian conditioned responding are shown to be lawfully related to objectively specifiable temporal properties of the events the animal is learning about.

Imagine enjoying a tasty dinner alone at home—you may freely indulge without worrying about others. Now imagine sharing the ...