Brain & Behavior
The Love Hormone Shapes Who We Befriend
Oxytocin, often called the love hormone, is best known for bonding couples and parents with their children.
Aug 15, 2025
Life
Spider Mimicry Tricks AI Into Seeing Wasp Faces
Jumping spiders have evolved such convincing visual disguises that they can fool artificial intelligence algorithms into mistaking them for wasps and other predatory insects.
Jul 18, 2025
Health
India Harbors Half the World's Neanderthal DNA
Scientists analyzing the genomes of nearly 3,000 Indians have uncovered something unexpected: this single country preserves about half of all surviving Neanderthal genetic material—more ancient human DNA than any other population studied to date.
Jun 26, 2025
Brain & Behavior
Brain Grooves May Hold Key to Better Reasoning Skills
The tiny wrinkles covering your brain aren't just cosmic accidents from cramming too much gray matter into your skull.
May 22, 2025
Earth & Environment
A single dry winter decimated California’s salmon and trout populations
A single severely dry winter temporarily, but dramatically, altered the ranges of three fishes — Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead trout — in California’s northern waterways.
Apr 9, 2025
Health
Scientists discover why obesity takes away the pleasure of eating
The pleasure we get from eating junk food — the dopamine rush from crunching down on salty, greasy French fries and a luscious burger — is often blamed as the cause of overeating and rising obesity rates in our society.
Mar 31, 2025
Life
Fruit Flies Steal Bacterial Genes to Fight Off Parasitic Wasps
In the brutal world of insect survival, fruit flies have pulled off an extraordinary heist: stealing genes from bacteria to defend themselves against parasitic wasps that would otherwise turn them into living incubators for baby wasps.
Dec 29, 2024
Space
Magnetic Tornadoes Stir Giant Dark Spots into Jupiter's Polar Haze
While Jupiter's Great Red Spot has long captivated observers, scientists have uncovered another fascinating phenomenon at the gas giant's poles: Earth-sized…
Nov 26, 2024
Brain & Behavior
The Science Behind Why We Often Misread Information's Importance
From basketball games to financial markets, humans show a remarkably consistent pattern in how they misinterpret information: we tend to make too much of weak signals while failing to appreciate truly important news.
Nov 26, 2024
Life
How Ancient and Modern Predators Cope with Worn-Out Teeth
Summary: New research reveals that different meat-eating mammals have evolved distinct strategies for dealing with tooth wear over their lifetimes.
Nov 11, 2024
Brain & Behavior
Exposing Kids to Misinformation Boosts Fact-Checking Skills
In an era when online misinformation is seemingly everywhere and objective facts are often in dispute, UC Berkeley psychologists in a new study have presented…
Oct 10, 2024
Health
Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?
Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on Fungal Food Innovation What traditional Indonesian food inspired this research?
Aug 29, 2024
Life
Hidden Martian Oceans: Vast Water Reserves Discovered Deep Below Surface
Seismic Data Reveals Unexpected Water Reservoir on Mars A team of geophysicists has uncovered evidence of a massive underground water reservoir on Mars, potentially solving a long-standing mystery about the planet's vanished oceans.
Aug 12, 2024
Health
Infant Health Decline Linked to 2016 Election Stress, Study Finds
Research Reveals Increase in Premature and Underweight Births Among Non-White Mothers A new study from the University of California, Berkeley has uncovered a troubling trend in infant health following the 2016 U.S.
Jul 26, 2024