The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

An image generated by prompts to Google Gemini. (Courtesy of Joe Nalven) This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence ...

The concept of human understanding revolves around finding ways to treat patients as unique individuals and personalize each patient’s experiences in every interaction with the healthcare system. NRC ...

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

Around 98.5% of human DNA is non-coding, meaning it doesn’t get copied to make proteins. A new study has connected many of these non-coding regions to the genes they affect and laid out guidelines for ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Most humans have an innate ability to understand the emotions of chickens, a new study has found. Around 7 out of 10 humans can tell if the animals are happy or not according to the sounds they make, ...

This column was composed in part by incorporating responses from a large-language model, a type of artificial intelligence program. The human species has long grappled with the question of what makes ...