Pretty much everyone has heard of sleepwalking – and some of us even do it from time to time. But sleep cooking and sleep driving? Engaging in such activities while not awake – a phenomenon known as ...

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 ...

A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things ...

Recent studies reveal that changes in gene regulation, not just gene sequences, are crucial for the evolution of animal ...

Reciprocity—I scratch your back; you scratch mine—has long been thought to be one of the hallmarks of friendship and other close relationships. In the world of nonhuman primates, the back-scratching ...

Researchers have discovered how networks of neurons in fruit flies transform simple brain signals into coordinated actions. This sheds light on the neural mechanisms underlying complex behaviors for ...

A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things ...