A new study reveals the brain circuit behind parental care also controls helping behavior, offering clues about the roots of compassion.

Recently, I found my otherwise fearless dog freaking out in my basement, hiding in a corner. It was kind of funny … until the power went out. A few minutes later, my friend and neighbor Stew Smith, a ...

How exactly does a newly-hatched spider weave a perfect web that is characteristic of his or her species—without ever even having seen such a web, let alone having been trained to spin one? How do ...

The human capacity to learn exceeds that of any other animal. Indeed, our massive memories and impressive computing power are the engines of all that makes us different from other animals, rooted ...

Charles Darwin was born in 1809. He revolutionized evolutionary studies with his theory of natural selection. His ground-breaking work, first formulated privately and later published in "On the Origin ...