This bold social experiment forces people to confront a question they’re never prepared for: would they let a stranger live ...

Researchers are trying to build tiny synthetic emotions into AI that they hope will be the scaffolding of machine ...

Behavioral science describes the study of human behavior through the use of systematic experimentation and observation. Behavioral scientists study when and why individuals engage in specific ...

A new study shows that dopamine release in the human brain plays a crucial role in encoding both reward and punishment prediction errors. This means that dopamine is involved in the process of ...

You might have noticed that the seasons don’t quite behave like they used to. In some places, fall and spring seem to fly by, while winter and summer are much longer and feel more intense. This shift ...

One factor jumped out: the sex of the human. Cats were much more vocal when the returning person was male. The researchers, ...

Securus Technologies says it has built an AI model based on years of communications from prison inmates that can detect signs ...

The same fundamental platform that allows Schrödinger's cat to be both alive and dead, and also means two particles can "speak to each other" even across a galaxy's distance, could help to explain ...

Jane Goodall passes away; her 65-year legacy with primates transforms animal research and marks the beginning of a new era in conservation.

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To get around that, a team of researchers recently did the largest gene/behavior association study within a single dog breed.