Scientists have long assumed that anemonefish's tight-knit relationship with sea anemones, their protective hosts, was the main engine behind their evolutionary diversification. But the team wondered ...

In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

Oxytocin is a hormone linked to bonding of all kinds—maternal, familial, romantic, social. In mice, the team found, the OxtrINs cortical circuit promoted receptivity to mating—but only in females, and ...

The Harvard researcher has received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences for her study of ...

In animals with social structures, the drive to reproduce is a complex process; governed by the brain, it's influenced by ...

A research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has uncovered a new way in which the yeast Candida albicans can damage human ...

The Conversation introduces research from Tufts University that explains although many people don’t understand fever’s ...

You are not one self, but many. Psychology and neuroscience now agree that our identity is made of parts, shaped by brain ...

Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and ...

Two closely-related species of deer mice have evolved very different responses to aerial predators thanks to tweaks in deep brain circuitry.

When it comes to sleeping, few animals are as fastidious as orangutans. Each evening, as twilight approaches, the ...