13-11-01 A Deakin University study has found for the first time that, just like humans, unpredictability（不可预测性） is also a consistent behavioral trait in the animal world. Animals are known to show consistent individual differences in behavior, which i...

13-10-24 Cells in the human body change shape as they crawl, split, or cling to other surfaces, but while the scientific literature is filled with examples of how cell shapes shift in response to things they touch, little is known about the rules that govern...

13-10-18 Scientists have proposed that the most recently discovered ancient human relatives -- the Denisovans - somehow managed to cross one of the world's most prominent marine barriers in Indonesia, and later interbred with modern humans moving through the...

13-10-17 As sanctuary-kept chimpanzees grow from infant to juvenile, they develop increased susceptibility to human yawn（哈欠） contagion, possibility due to their increasing ability to empathize（移情，神会） , says a study published October 16, 2013, in t...

13-10-15 Researchers studying young bonobos（倭黑猩猩） in an African sanctuary have discovered striking similarities between the emotional development of the bonobos and that of children, suggesting these great apes regulate their emotions in a human-like w...

13-10-11 When people want to direct the attention of others, they naturally do so by pointing, starting from a very young age. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on October 10 have shown that elephants spontaneously get...

13-10-10 As human life expectancy increases, so does the percentage of invasive and endangered birds and mammals, according to a new study by the University of California, Davis. The study, published in the September issue of Ecology and Society, examined a...

13-09-26 An international team of archaeologists led by experts from the University of York has uncovered evidence of human activity in the high slopes of the French Alps dating back over 8000 years. The 14-year study in the Parc National des Ecrins in the s...

13-09-17 Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other incredibly diverse behaviors? The answer, Dartmouth res...

13-09-06 Forests in the northeastern US have been radically transformed over the last four centuries by human activity, and their relationship with climate factors like rainfall weakened, according to research published September 4 in the open access journal...