For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Veronika Koren talks about pursuing a theory of neural coding that doesn’t fit a simple narrative, and the resilience it took to see it through.

Robustness is a ubiquitous feature of biological systems. It ensures that specific functions of the system are maintained despite external and internal perturbations. System control, alternative (or ...

Russia’s early struggles to push disinformation and propaganda about Ukraine have picked up momentum in recent days, thanks to a variety of debunked conspiracy theories about biological research labs ...

Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory proposes that hunting was a major driver of human ...

1. BIOLOGICAL THEORY: Randy Thornhill, The Biology of Human Rape, 39 Jurimetrics J. 137(1999) at 143: Selection, or differential reproductive success among individuals due to trait differences, is the ...

The Biden administration says the two countries’ promotion of anti-U.S. conspiracy theories might be cover for lethal Russian military operations. By Edward Wong WASHINGTON — One of Russia’s most ...

I've been working on a ludic theory of human nature. In case you haven't studied Latin in a while (perhaps not since several lifetimes ago), ludic means playful. I'm calling my theory a ludic theory ...