Karen Hopkin: Bats rely on echolocation to navigate the night skies and to chase down and capture even erratically moving prey. But even more impressive than their aerial acrobatics are the mental ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists studying rats have found both male and female newborns have an innate sense of direction before they've even begun to move around, and this is likely to be the same ...

Duke University neuroscientists Elizabeth Brannon and Ariel Starr test a rudimentary understanding of numbers in infants called a "primitive number sense." When looking at two collections of dots ...

Think of your child or grandchild or friend’s child. Next imagine that child with his or her skin flayed, flesh burned and limbs torn apart in a blinding flash. Consider the devastation such a death ...

Philosophers and psychologists often debate about whether our beliefs, emotions, desires, values, etc., are innate or whether they are learned. But does this type of debate make sense? Paul Griffiths, ...

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