A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...

Scientists have documented same-sex behavior in many animals. Learn what it means, how it varies, and why human labels can mislead.

By transforming movement into data, Timothy Dunn is reshaping how scientists can study behavior and the brain.

A long-term study of 292 families linked fathers’ parenting style to their children’s heart health years later. To ...

Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians and pundits. And each finding sits within a ...

New research shows that parents who read to their 6- to 8-year-olds nightly boost their children’s creativity and empathy.

A new Wharton study explains why stock returns aren’t random. Correlation neglect causes market overreaction, momentum, and reversals investors consistently misprice.

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single ...

No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was ...

A new WHO study suggests more than 7 million cases of cancer in 2022 were preventable. Nearly 40% of all the cases that year were caused by modifiable risk factors — behavioral and environmental ...

How big of a role do our genes play in our lifespan? Quite a bit more than previously thought, a new study suggests.

A study conducted in Taiwan found that autistic individuals tend to show differences in gut microbiota composition compared ...