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Naughty or Nice? A Brain Chemical May Tell
Chemicals in your body can influence how generous or selfish you are, and, in recent years, experiments have explored...
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A More Human Artificial Brain
The latest attempt to build machines that can learn to recognize objects or even develop cognitive skills is caled...
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Award-Winning Pictures of the Tiniest Things on Earth
This incredible image of fern spores is just one of the many mind-blowing images that won the Olympus BioScapes...
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Environmental ‘Stressors’ Threaten Lakes Erie, Ontario
Facing multiple threats — from zebra mussels to toxins to light pollution from brightly lit shoreline cities — Lakes...
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How Communities Shape Our Morals
As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom...
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World Population Living Longer but With More Disability
The health of most of the planet’s population is rapidly coming to resemble that of the United States, where...
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Vast Diversity of Arthropods in Small Patch of Rain Forest
Though birds, trees, and orchids call the tropical rain forest home, they are immensely outnumbered by tiny arthropods, such...
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Biologic Link to Homosexuality
Epigenetics — how gene expression is regulated by temporary switches called epi-marks — appears to be critical in determining...
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New Study Reveals Overeating Larger Problem Than Malnourishment
For the first time in history, a study shows that the number of years of healthy living lost because...
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Extreme Weather More Persuasive on Climate Change Than Scientists
AP poll shows that events like superstorm Sandy are succeeding with climate sceptics where scientists have been failing