A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Two 9,000-year-old skeletons will be held by University of California, San Diego, officials—rather than turned over to American Indians for reburial—until a lawsuit is settled.
Human-specific duplications of a gene involved in brain development may have contributed to our species’ unique intelligence.
Researchers investigate a microorganism that may warrant a new eukaryotic kingdom in the classification of life.
Inspired by Darwin, Mohamed Noor has uncovered the molecular dance by which a single species becomes two.
Masters of the Planet, Learning from the Octopus, Darwin’s Devices, and Psychology’s Ghosts
A transition-state mimic has the power to bind an enzyme at its tipping point as strongly as any available inhibitor and more strongly than most, preventing enzymatic activity. In order to replicate the structure of an enzyme’s transition state, whic
Targeting the briefest moment in chemistry may lead to an exceptionally strong new class of drugs.
House mice sing melodies out of the range of human hearing, and the crooning is impacting research from evolutionary biology to neuroscience.