When three bright minds from different disciplines come together, something exceptional can happen. This is exactly what Prof. Patricia Hidalgo, Dr. Beatrix Santiago-Schübel, and Dr. Mercedes ...

Researchers are learning how to coax aging blood stem cells in mice to behave more like their younger counterparts, restoring ...

Seeing Batman inspires us, say psychologists whose new research suggests that it increases people's propensity toward prosocial behaviors.

David Keller, a New Ulm native and graduate of New Ulm High School, works as a heavy equipment operator at McMurdo Station in ...

When it comes to training robots to perform agile, single-task motor skills, such as handstands or backflips, artificial intelligence methods can be very useful. But if you want to train your robot to ...

What if a surface could instantly switch from sticky to slippery at the push of a button? By using electricity to control how ions and water structure at the solid liquid interface of self-assembled ...

When describing collective properties of macroscopic physical systems, microscopic fluctuations are typically averaged out, leaving a description of the typical behavior of the systems. While this ...

How animals may modify their behavior depending on their context has been modeled mathematically by two RIKEN neuroscientists. Their simple but biologically plausible model could shed light on mental ...

The current sociopolitical climate has made science a contested terrain. Polemical rhetoric and attempts to subordinate science to ideology are not only compromising research integrity, but also ...

Behavioral sciences, encompassing environmental psychology, behavioral economics, social anthropology, and sociology, have ...