Whether a computer could ever pass for a living thing is one of the key challenges for researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

To reconstruct the cookery of people who lived thousands of years ago, bones and plant remains can tell us which ingredients were available

If a midday slump has you reaching for a pick-me-up, you might want to think twice before picking up coffee.

Researchers used machine learning techniques to analyze data on 2,038 married or cohabiting couples who participated in the GSEP Survey.

Researchers conclude that adding dogs or cats to promotional ads makes people more eager to pursue a goal or product.

The precise role of each subregion in the brain in real-time speech feedback has until now remained unclear.

When people feel like they belong at work, they are more productive, motivated, engaged and more likely to contribute to their fullest.

Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study finds

A new study sought to identify root causes for information avoidance, particularly around consumer finance matters.

The Matterhorn appears as an immovable, massive mountain that has towered over the landscape near Zermatt for thousands of years.

Stories reveal the emotional toll of prolonged separation across geographical distances when loved ones are no longer ‘just one flight away’

White people who received training in mindfulness meditation were three times more likely to help a Black person in staged scenarios.

Throughout evolution sleep has remained universal and essential to all organisms with a nervous system.

Researchers caught liars at an unprecedented accuracy of 73% by measuring the movements of facial muscles with groundbreaking electrode tech

If you're in a foul mood and boot your robotic pet down the stairs, are you being a jerk? Is the device's owner culpable of bad behavior?

Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at?

When two people are attracted to one another, their heart rates tend to synchronize and their palms sweat together.

Mass media and general public often link violent video games to real-life violence, although there is limited evidence to support the link.

The loneliness epidemic could be alleviated by an unlikely marriage between space research and virtual reality (VR).

People are more honest in day-to-day life than previously thought—except for "a few prolific liars," according to the results of a new study