U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to ...

For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger ...

Fear begins deep in the brain. The amygdala, buried within the temporal lobe, acts as an alarm system, detecting threats and ...

Conversational AIs are getting better at sounding human. But when their goals misalign with ours, the consequences can be ...

Nirmalya Thakur, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at South Dakota ...

Psychology reveals that fear, masculinity, and social norms drive U.S. gun culture—and shifting these mindsets can reduce violence.

As chronic liver disease becomes more widespread, researchers at Science Tokyo have developed a lab-grown organoid that ...

Police officers, hospital staff and emergency workers often swear that their nights get busier under a full moon. But does ...

A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has found that leg loss doesn’t slow tarantulas almost at all.

Alex is said to have mastered 100 words and even asked questions – something that’s almost unheard of in non-human animals.