The bush-dwelling penguins of New Zealand’s South Island offer Jamie Lafferty an insight into the species’ evolution and ...

Published on A study by the UNIGE uncovers a fundamental mechanism that determines how hair follicles organize their positions on the skin of ...

Have you ever picked up a piece of fruit and taken one deep sniff to see if it was ripe? It turns out that mice do something ...

A new study builds on a wave of new work that is daring to suggest insects might have a form of consciousness.

A breakthrough study revealed a primitive brain region that acts as a built-in filter to block out a noisy world.

A new study suggests the future of pest control may depend less on poison than many New Yorkers expect.

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

Picture a mouse taking rapid, staccato sniffs of a crumb it's found while foraging for food. Now compare that with a human, ...

Aging changes gut bacteria in mice, weakening communication between the intestines and the brain. Restoring that connection ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

What does a hantavirus do inside its rodent hosts? How do these viruses move through animal populations? And how is it that ...