Despite advances in psychology, neuroscience, and biology, certain behaviors still leave scientists scratching their heads.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social behavior of animals. By quantitatively measuring the movements, interactions, and ...

Pretty much everyone has heard of sleepwalking – and some of us even do it from time to time. But sleep cooking and sleep driving? Engaging in such activities while not awake – a phenomenon known as ...

A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have transferred a courtship behavior from one species to another, triggering the recipient to perform this completely foreign act as if it was its own. While genes ...

While often considered taboo, nose picking in public represents a complex behavior pattern that deserves scientific examination. Research reveals surprising insights about this common habit and its ...

Researchers have discovered how networks of neurons in fruit flies transform simple brain signals into coordinated actions. This sheds light on the neural mechanisms underlying complex behaviors for ...

For more than 25 years, chemical and biomolecular engineer Denis Wirtz has pushed cancer research beyond flat cell cultures in petri dishes into three-dimensional models that better represent human ...

A sense of time is fundamental to how we understand, recall, and interact with the world. Tasks ranging from holding a conversation to driving a car require us to remember and perceive how long things ...