Look down at the rainforest floor. Rotting flowers shift under the assault of tiny petal-eating beetles. Vividly colored ...

The team thinks this means that the cingulate cortex manages the social purpose and context of the facial gesture, which is ...

“We were able to causally link a specific brain pathway to a ‘brake’ on motivation when individuals face unpleasant tasks in daily life,” says Ken-ichi Amemori, an associate professor at the Institute ...

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over computers in its ability to transfer skills and learn across tasks. A new study ...

Researchers in China recently made an astonishing announcement: They’d created a supercomputer modeled on a monkey’s brain. Researchers at the National Key Laboratory of Brain-Computer Intelligence at ...

Creating a virtual brain may sound like a science-fiction nightmare, but for neuroscientists in Japan and at Seattle’s Allen Institute, it’s a big step toward a long-held dream. They say their ...

Last November, the day after the election, Daniel Vance was eating lunch in his truck when he noticed something move in the trees across the road. The forecast had predicted thunderstorms in the rural ...

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Before Craig Morgan was telling us what he loves about Sunday, he spent more than 17 years in the U.S. Army, and he told us about a time he had to eat monkey brains for the good of our country. Morgan ...

Since time immemorial, the sentient self-reflective universal human condition has asked two questions: Who are we, and what are we? These two questions were then divided into two categories: the ...

Guess what: I'm a little monkey. And you? Ha, I bet you thought this day would never come, but you've been revealed as a little monkey, too. The truth is, every single person you've ever met is a ...