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Behavioral sciences explore the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioral interactions between organisms in the natural world.
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APR 21, 2017Health & Medicine
Metoprolol is a classic drug for everything heart-related: preventing chest pain, lowering high blood pressure, and redu ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 20, 2017Plants & Animals
In case you’ve never heard about the tale of the man-eating lions of Tsavo, two lions essentially terrorized a gro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 19, 2017Plants & Animals
In the wild, birds don’t have a nice and peaceful oasis like one might think. Their habitats are riddled with nois ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 15, 2017Videos
Why is it that some animals seem to shrink and some seem to get bigger? Some studies have shown that this phenomenon occ ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 14, 2017Genetics & Genomics
The American public’s belief that homosexuality is a consequence of genetics has grown—as has acce ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 14, 2017Plants & Animals
When you and I have no idea where we’re going, we just hop in the car, fire up the GPS system, and tell it where w ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 12, 2017Neuroscience
LA JOLLA, CA – April 12, 2017 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) could ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)APR 11, 2017Neuroscience
Neuromodulation. Isn’t that a pretty cool word? Sounds like something Marvin Martian would say, but it’s no ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 10, 2017Plants & Animals
Badgers are known for caching any food they come across in order to help keep it safe from other hungry wild animals in ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 08, 2017Microbiology
When bacteria live in communities, they begin to exhibit interesting behavioral patternsWritten By: Carmen LeitchAPR 08, 2017Plants & Animals
It turns out that mandrills, a type of Old World monkey, behave similarly to humans in that they try to avoid sick frien ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 07, 2017Plants & Animals
Cephalopods, the branch of animals dealing primarily with octopuses and squids, are much more unique than previously tho ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 06, 2017Plants & Animals
While investigating a shipwreck off of the coast of the Florida Keys, which is now considered an artificial reef, scient ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 06, 2017Neuroscience
Does size matter? For the brain, it does. Animals that are far bigger than humans, such as gorillas, who can grow to be ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAPR 05, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Comprehensive knowledge of the functions of a human cell is the key to understanding health and disease. The Allen ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 05, 2017Plants & Animals
One of the types of food that dolphins are quite keen of are octopuses. For dolphins, they’re both tasty and bite- ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 04, 2017Plants & Animals
Close your eyes and imagine a world where fish just walk themselves right out of the water and start living on land beca ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAPR 03, 2017Cancer
In the quest to reduce exposure to BPA, a chemical that’s linked to cancer, manufacturers are turning to BPA subst ...APR 03, 2017Plants & Animals
The highly controversial drive hunting of dolphins that occurs in Taiji, Japan annually is raising some issues for a sma ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 31, 2017Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA – March 31, 2017 – New research from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggests that the re ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)MAR 31, 2017Videos
Much of the time, people derive causation from correlation. Put another way, when two odd circumstances seem to align wi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 31, 2017Plants & Animals
There exists a fish so small and colorful that you would think it was harmless; on the other hand, it seems as though it ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 30, 2017Neuroscience
While the field of neuroscience isn’t known for flash or glamour, winning the annual Brain Prize is definitely som ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 28, 2017Videos
We can all agree that the teenage years don't necessarily have the best reputation in terms of angst and confusion and j ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 21, 2017
Health & Medicine
Metoprolol is a classic drug for everything heart-related: preventing chest pain, lowering high blood pressure, and redu
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 20, 2017
Plants & Animals
In case you’ve never heard about the tale of the man-eating lions of Tsavo, two lions essentially terrorized a gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 19, 2017
Plants & Animals
In the wild, birds don’t have a nice and peaceful oasis like one might think. Their habitats are riddled with nois
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 15, 2017
Videos
Why is it that some animals seem to shrink and some seem to get bigger? Some studies have shown that this phenomenon occ
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 14, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
The American public’s belief that homosexuality is a consequence of genetics has grown—as has acce
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
When you and I have no idea where we’re going, we just hop in the car, fire up the GPS system, and tell it where w
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 12, 2017
Neuroscience
LA JOLLA, CA – April 12, 2017 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) could
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
APR 11, 2017
Neuroscience
Neuromodulation. Isn’t that a pretty cool word? Sounds like something Marvin Martian would say, but it’s no
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
Badgers are known for caching any food they come across in order to help keep it safe from other hungry wild animals in
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 08, 2017
Microbiology
When bacteria live in communities, they begin to exhibit interesting behavioral patterns
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
It turns out that mandrills, a type of Old World monkey, behave similarly to humans in that they try to avoid sick frien
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
Cephalopods, the branch of animals dealing primarily with octopuses and squids, are much more unique than previously tho
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 06, 2017
Plants & Animals
While investigating a shipwreck off of the coast of the Florida Keys, which is now considered an artificial reef, scient
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 06, 2017
Neuroscience
Does size matter? For the brain, it does. Animals that are far bigger than humans, such as gorillas, who can grow to be
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 05, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Comprehensive knowledge of the functions of a human cell is the key to understanding health and disease. The Allen
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
One of the types of food that dolphins are quite keen of are octopuses. For dolphins, they’re both tasty and bite-
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
Close your eyes and imagine a world where fish just walk themselves right out of the water and start living on land beca
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 03, 2017
Cancer
In the quest to reduce exposure to BPA, a chemical that’s linked to cancer, manufacturers are turning to BPA subst
...
APR 03, 2017
Plants & Animals
The highly controversial drive hunting of dolphins that occurs in Taiji, Japan annually is raising some issues for a sma
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 31, 2017
Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA – March 31, 2017 – New research from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggests that the re
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
MAR 31, 2017
Videos
Much of the time, people derive causation from correlation. Put another way, when two odd circumstances seem to align wi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 31, 2017
Plants & Animals
There exists a fish so small and colorful that you would think it was harmless; on the other hand, it seems as though it
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 30, 2017
Neuroscience
While the field of neuroscience isn’t known for flash or glamour, winning the annual Brain Prize is definitely som
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 28, 2017
Videos
We can all agree that the teenage years don't necessarily have the best reputation in terms of angst and confusion and j
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan