While shifts in behavior could help wildlife and people coexist, they might also affect the animals’ survival.

More than 3,500 scientists had signed an open letter to NIH Director Francis Collins opposing the rules change.

Researchers find consistent behaviors and brain activity in an international study.

The human brain’s insular cortex is adept at registering distaste for everything from rotten fruit to unfamiliar cultures.

Meet some of the people featured in the June 2017 issue of The Scientist.

In the book’s introduction, author and neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky explains his fascination with the biology of violence and other dark parts of human behavior.

Human visitors to camera traps display, well, human behavior.

Researchers are using multiple methods to study the origins of humans’ capacity to process and produce music, and there’s no shortage of debate about the results.

Eating members of your own species might turn the stomach of the average human, but some animal species make a habit of dining on their own.

The modern human brain evolved in social and environmental settings very unlike today’s. Despite our cultural and technological progress, tribal instincts remain.