Is complex social behavior genetically determined? Yes, as a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ...

Recent studies showing wide cultural and individual differences in biophilia call into question the claim that humans are ...

Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

Tampa, Fla (Nov. 6, 2025) — An international research team that includes USF Health researcher Dr. Yong Xu and two colleagues from Great Britain has been awarded a European Research Council Synergy ...

Source: Nosferattus, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. This time of year, spiders receive a lot of attention for their creepier qualities. But Ximena Nelson, a biologist at the University of Canterbury in ...

A new study on mice reveals how a specific brain circuit helps them learn when a perceived threat is not a real danger, adjusting their defensive reactions over time. The research identifies the ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In their manuscript, Michelson et al use a combination of ...

Water drop stimulus paradigm evokes grooming behaviors with a rich diversity of movements. Cortical activation maps during spontaneous and evoked grooming behaviors. Binary response maps for each ...

A team in Japan reports that switching on one gene in a specific set of brain cells made one fruit fly species perform the courtship ritual of another. The two species involved, split from a common ...

Summary: Scientists in Japan have used genetic engineering to make a species of fruit fly perform a courtship ritual it had never done before. By turning on the “fruitless” gene in insulin-producing ...