Parasites are a major global health problem, underlying many human diseases worldwide. For example, Plasmodium falciparum, ...

Researchers at Tulane University have identified brain circuits that help determine how fear responses change as perceived threats diminish, offering new insight into how the brain regulates defensive ...

Summary: New research has identified the specific brain circuits that determine how we react to danger—and how those responses change as a threat fades. While fear research has traditionally focused ...

Artificial intelligence has reached a critical juncture where its behaviors are no longer confined to theoretical models or controlled lab settings. Species explores a striking example of this shift, ...

Many people discover, sometimes much later than expected, that they are not neurotypical, often because the signs were there, but just interpreted as, say, a fun, personal quirk. So we’ve gathered ...

In certain environments, animal stampedes form when survival instincts synchronize across massive herds. Scientists study these events to understand how fear, movement, and crowd density combine into ...

Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. For the first time, ...