A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...

Led by MIT Sloan School of Management PhD graduate Mohammed Alsobay and associate professor Abdullah Almaatouq, the researchers demonstrate that integrative experiment design, an approach that ...

The Spanish researcher at London’s Francis Crick Institute has manipulated a fly’s neurons to make it obsess over an exotic ...

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By ...

A new study reveals how ravens' behavior impacts their survival. Risk-prone birds face higher mortality due to human ...

Researchers at Harvard have developed a fleet of "RAnts" that mirror the self-organizing genius of ant colonies to build and ...

Volatile brood pheromone: The larvae of the clonal raider ant Ooceraea biroi produce a specific volatile compound (methyl-3-ethyl-2-hydroxy-4-methylpentanoate, MEHMP) that suppresses egg-laying in ...

Additional product displays in supermarket aisles—so-called secondary placements—are intended to encourage impulse purchases.

This valuable work identifies a subpopulation of neurons in the larval zebrafish pallium that responds differentially to varying threat levels, potentially mediating the categorization of negative ...

“Estrogen is basically turning up the sensor for acetate,” Ingraham explains. “It’s a compound gut bacteria produce when they ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition estimated to affect approximately 1 in 100 children ...