Research into human-animal chimeras could have a therapeutic payoff, but the work brings up thorny ethical questions.

Dr Charlotte Russell, Clinical Psychologist, on a personal and professional journey.

Some ideas on improving conferences so they are worth the financial, time, and ecological investments.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Online behavioural research faces a growing methodological and epistemic threat as participants increasingly rely on large language models: LLM Pollution. Amid accumulating empirical evidence of conta...

Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin...

Using Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of 1436 mammal species, we show that pair-living and group-living species have longer maximum lifespans than solitary species after accounting for body mass and p...

Real-world data reveal that cooperation continually falls and rebounds. Motivation to cooperate must therefore be actively renewed rather than assumed to sustain itself.

What would you do if you suddenly realized that the thief you saw was actually your sibling?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

There is debate about whether charitable giving is driven more by empathy or by reasoning about effectiveness. Here, the authors show via meta-analysis that both correlate with giving, but only empath...