The brain criticality hypothesis proposes that neural networks may operate near a transition point between ordered and random activity. This critical point has been shown to help neural networks ...

New research performed with mice suggests that daily time in a warm environment such as a sauna might help older adults, especially women, combat age-related obesity and insulin resistance. The study ...

Plants grow longer to cool off when faced with warm but not yet dangerous conditions, which can affect crop yields. New research led by an Iowa State University biologist could help fine-tune the ...

Natufian figurines depicting waterfowls, a bird of prey and a human-bird (woman-goose) interaction, modelled in clay 15,000 years ago (left) and 12,000 years ago (right), discovered at the sites of ...

Un estudio de 12 años sobre elefantes asiáticos en libertad en Sri Lanka revela que el declive poblacional gradual puede llevar a las sociedades animales más allá de un punto de inflexión social, ...

There are no woodpeckers on the Hawaiian islands, but a little yellow bird called the  ‘akiapōlāʻau (Ah-key-ah-pole-ah-ow) ...

Octopuses squeeze through holes that should be too small. How? In a study in Journal of Experimental Biology by Wenci Xin ...

Karl, a 28-year-old man living in the northeastern United States, has a grey tabby cat named "Luna". In the morning, his cat is often the first face that he sees. And on some days from that point on, ...

Chimpanzee emitting a raspberry call. These calls show highly flexible usage in communities without role models but stable, settled usage in communities with role models, showing the formation of a ...