Your brain is wrinkled like a walnut, and those wrinkles aren't just for show. Each fold increases the amount of surface area ...

Animals have evolved to sleep in extreme ways — for example, taking micro naps during parenting, sleeping on the wing during ...

A study reveals how seasonal brain shrinking helps some mammals survive winter, offering new insights into brain plasticity ...

It may seem impossible for an animal to live without a brain, but these creatures have developed ways to adapt and thrive. It might sound strange, but these animals have evolved in such a way that ...

Researchers from the University of St Andrews have developed an AI tool that reads animal movement from video and turns it ...

This coral keeps time without a brain, showing how distributed nerve nets can synchronize movement across an entire animal.

We recently hosted a sweet-tempered Schnauzer-Poodle mix in our home while the dog’s primary guardian was out of town. For several weeks, this dog kept me company and initiated interactions with me ...

Humans have a single, central command center that helps them make sense of the world. In contrast, nature has come up with many more complicated ways to stay alive. A distributed nervous system, where ...