Many dog breeds are noted for their personalities and behavioral traits, from the distinctive vocalizations of huskies to the herding of border collies. People have worked to identify the genes ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own. While genes ...

Neurobiology researchers Sam Golden and Nastacia Goodwin review light sheet fluorescent microscopy brain images revealing the activity of individual neurons during different behaviors. They are in a ...

New evidence reveals that behavior, including hive mentality or groupthink, may be predetermined by genetics. Generally, we consider behavior to be learned. By interacting with the world, different ...

Maryam Shanechi, the Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and her team have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate ...

If you’re a dog parent, you know your pup doesn’t act the same with every person at home. They might be rough and rowdy with one person while being calm and cuddly with another. A recent video of a ...

Currently, synthetic polymers are extremely common—these are chains of molecular structures designed by scientists to serve a multitude of purposes. Chung and Saha’s article was featured on the cover ...

Modern science took off during the Enlightenment and changed the world. Science differed from philosophy in that it did not presuppose how nature must be, as the early philosophers tended to do, but ...

Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...