"Octopus!" (Courtesy of Prime) These characteristics are compared to human traits, leading many to conclude that octopuses are remarkably intelligent. But as Piero Amodio, an animal behavior and ...

A light-hearted round-up of this week's stories from Cambridge, including TV quiz shows and a paw-sitive opportunity for the uni's furry friends ...

A decade ago, Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow introduced us to the idea that there are two very different cognitive systems in the brain ... Charles Darwin, the father of the theory ...

Ever heard of Fischer's disease? No? Maybe that is not surprising, because it doesn't exist. But it could have. In fact, the ...

A generations-long culture of deep-diving among women on a South Korean Island may have changed their genetic evolution. A ...

One (controversial) theory is that H naledi transported ... In our day, after Charles Darwin’s world-transforming proposition that humans are part of, and continuous with, the animal ...

At depth, the pressure of the ocean causes blood vessels to constrict, limiting the flow of oxygen to the brain, lungs and ... regardless of training." Charles Darwin, the British naturalist ...

One of the interesting things that came up in the research—it’s a really interesting theory called the snake ... There’s some ingrained perception. Charles Darwin read a report by a German ...

DACHER KELTNER: When I read your book, I thought a lot about, in some sense, Charles Darwin ... And that is still an incredible finding and body of theory. However, you know, even Darwin understood ...

Our understanding of who we are, our place in the world, and the very nature of our being is an intricate tapestry woven from ...