Faces are so important to social communication that we’ve evolved specialized brain cells just to recognize them, a new study ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth that allows us to understand each other's emotions ...

In the weeks following a ski accident, a German man experienced seizures when he completed sudoku puzzles.

Negative emotions like arguing and fighting are highly contagious and can infect us within nanoseconds. We need a "cognitive ...

Your twenties are not meant to feel like a deadline, even though society acts like you have to become a fully formed person ...

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered that increasing the levels of a protein called BACH2 makes ...

During pregnancy, maternal and fetal cells migrate back and forth across the placenta, with fetal cells entering the mother's ...

An international group of researchers led by Pompeu Fabra University has discovered the nanomachine that controls ...

The light-sensitive tissue of birds’ eyes is not supplied with oxygen by blood vessels – instead, it powers itself with a ...

The discovery that some fluorescent proteins are sensitive to magnets could lead to the development of switchable drugs and biosensors.

After three years of study, the researchers found that alpha-synuclein, a protein closely linked to Parkinson’s disease, forms an abnormal connection with an enzyme called ClpP. This enzyme normally ...