Researchers have identified a key neural switch that controls whether animals instinctively flee from a threat or freeze in ...

Footprints of a multispecies herd of dinosaurs discovered in Canada demonstrate the social interaction between different ...

A new study reveals how evolution fine-tunes instinctive fear responses by tweaking a key neural switch deep in the brain.

As large language models like Claude 4 express uncertainty about whether they are conscious, researchers race to decode their ...

In the rodent family tree, deer mice separated from the ancestors of house mice and rats about 25 million years ago. By some ...

Two closely-related species of deer mice have evolved very different responses to aerial predators thanks to tweaks in deep brain circuitry.

Researchers have identified a key neural switch that controls whether animals instinctively flee from a threat or freeze in place. By comparing two closely related deer-mouse species, they found that ...

A Bayesian decoder was employed to calculate the posterior probabilities of all position bins. This method assumes that transient counts follow a Poisson distribution and combines transient counts and ...

Are certain categories and identities natural and immutable, or are they artificial social conventions? The answer very much ...