Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, in for Terry Gross. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for Atlantic magazine on the first ...

The results of large-scale imaging experiments examining how social signals are represented in the sensory system have just been published. Working with a newly-developed line of transgenic mice that ...

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World by Nichola Raihani St. Martin’s Press, 2021 ($29.99) Society is built on a foundation of cooperation, with lessons on its importance starting as ...

All animals, human and nonhuman alike, experience the world through the perceptive lens of their senses: seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling. But we humans often fail to take in just how different ...

There's a vast world around us that animals can perceive — but humans can't. Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Ed Yong uses the example of a dark room: Though it might seem that there would be ...

All animals, human and nonhuman alike, experience the world through the perceptive lens of their senses: seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling. But we humans often fail to take in just how different ...