Like haunted houses? Scientists do. That's because they're an excellent place to study how humans respond to — and actively seek out — fear. "Typically when we study things in the lab, we're exposing ...

Kissing could be 21 million years old. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Matilda Brindle an evolutionary biologist from Oxford University about the origins of smooching. You've got to get in the mood for ...

Babies as young as one year old can form memories, according to the results of a brain-scanning study published today in Science. The findings suggest that infantile amnesia — the inability to ...