In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting ...

In a new study, Northwestern University neurobiologists discovered that gut bacteria and the nose work together to shape social behavior in mice, including who fights and who backs down. Using a ...

Wild meerkats are captivating to watch in their natural habitats, from the Kalahari Desert to Namibia’s dunes. These social, curious animals live in tight-knit groups, displaying sentinel behavior, ...

Drongos get the better of meerkats by pretending a predator is nearby. They swoop down and pinch the insects dropped in the ...

Sometimes, an animal sighting is so bizarre that all people can do is scratch their heads and wonder about what is going on. In a recent video filmed in a café, a small group of meerkats was spotted ...

The idea that people make decisions based on social context is not a new one in neural economic games. But now, for the first time, researchers show the impact of the social context may spring from ...

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Social media lit up on Friday night as UConn fell in an upset to South Carolina in the Final Four, in a game marked by intense defense and poor Husky shooting. Most of the focus was on UConn head ...

Led by MIT Sloan School of Management PhD graduate Mohammed Alsobay and associate professor Abdullah Almaatouq, the researchers demonstrate that integrative experiment design, an approach that ...

A custom-built artificial intelligence system developed by Rice researchers helped uncover how bacterial communities ...