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Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

Can a set of lab-grown human neurons fused with silicon play Doom? The answer to that question is yes, and the proof of concept required a massive leap from the Pong-playing demonstration we saw a few ...

Discover how the massive Ashley Madison data leak allowed psychologists to study the real reasons people seek affairs and how society judges them.

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predators, altering how the animals behave and earning ...

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Your device does not support the audio. The “minute” on your phone is not a natural thing. Nothing in the sky divides an hour into 60 equal parts. Humans invented that slice of time—and then built ...

Every year, countless human-animal encounters end peacefully. We share hiking trails with deer, watch squirrels in our backyards, and enjoy wildlife at zoos without incident. Yet occasionally, these ...

Throughout history, a small number of tigers have been linked to exceptionally deadly attacks on humans. These incidents often followed injuries, habitat pressure, or repeated exposure that altered ...