But cleverness is hard to define - animals have to contend with different challenges in life and what might be clever or ...

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The genre of science fiction has a lot to say about sleep. Here are 11 great stories, from TV, film and books.

Humans have been creating artwork for a very long time, with things like cave paintings coming from prehistoric humans. It is largely believed that more complex artwork, such as sculptures, couldn’t ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast areas where no life can survive A satellite image of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, where 'dead zones' can ...