Even though babies are constantly learning, their memories of specific events seem to vanish. For years, scientists thought ...

She rose from afternoon slumbers with something pinching her tail. Three feet below the surface of San Diego Bay her equine ...

Infants can form memories, and they use a memory structure in the brain called the hippocampus to do it, researchers report in the March 21 Science. The results shore up the idea that memories can in ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by a simple question: Why can't you remember being a baby? Even though infants ...

So, what’s the deal with animals swapping sexes? Why do they do it and what can we learn from it? Let’s take a closer look at ...

However, researchers discovered a puzzle with species like the yellow, common, or spotted seahorse (Hippocampus kuda). These males cannot deposit sperm directly into their pouches because their ...

The mind is so deeply attached to the self that it can be unsettling to consider how much thinking we don’t do ourselves. Reports like this may trigger a sense of human defensiveness, a fear that the ...

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