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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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

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, ...