A new study of schoolchildren in France suggests that boys are not innately better at math. Some aspect of schooling appears ...

High school students learn that Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to associate the sound of a bell with getting food. The ...

Scientists are trying to understand footage that showed ocelots and opossums, usually predator and prey, hanging out together ...

This rescue dog acts just like a cat, jumping onto countertops and even the top of the refrigerator to be with his feline ...

Two lateral striatal subregions integrate the acquisition of stimulus-based decision-making in spatiotemporally and functionally different manners, challenging the prior model through a dominance ...

The study investigates the link between pesticide exposure and cognitive impairment in older adults, suggesting a need for ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team analyzed data from fecal samples of 828 wild chimpanzees across 30 populations, ...

EDUCATION to an ordinary person means no more than the process of passing across and imbibing or learning the practices, ways of life and arts of one’s fore-bearers usually orally or through ...

A new study involving chimpanzees offers surprising insights. Some animals suddenly began to carry blades of grass in their ears or even in their anus–without any apparent purpose. What initially ...

One dramatic example occurred in 1985 when researchers documented a female orca in Puget Sound pioneer an entirely new feeding technique: slapping her tail on the water’s surface to stun fish. Within ...