This image shows Claudia Fugazza and her dog demonstrating the Do As I Do Method.
Credit: Mirko Lui
People have a remarkable ability to remember and recall events from the past, even when those events didn't hold any particular importance at...
Retrospection: Self-reflection of one's own past.
Credit: Yasushi Miyashita
Researchers have pinpointed a brain region monkeys use to evaluate their ability to recall memories. To date, this metamemory process, which requires a higher level of self-reflection about our own cognition, was...
Dogs are able to identify the human having an eye on a hidden food source.
Credit: Ludwig Huber/Vetmeduni Vienna
Humans are able to interpret the behaviour of others by attributing mental states to them (and to themselves). By adopting the perspectives...
In a study testing novel object recognition and location, piglets interacted with these objects.
Credit: Stephen Fleming
We can't help but be tempted by new things. We see it in a child's eyes when she opens a new toy, and feel...
Dark chocolate.
Credit: © fortyforks / Fotolia
A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands -- a phrase commonly used to justify ones chocolate snacking behavior. A phrase now shown to actually harbor some truth, as the cocoa bean is a...
Scenario presented at the beginning of the study interviews and then the "correct answers."
Credit: Clara Vasconcelos et al., Geosphere, and The Geological Society of America
In their paper published this week in Geosphere, authors Clara Vasconcelos, Joanna Torres, and Joana...
These two photos showing evidence of afterslip were taken where the West Napa fault crosses Highway 12 at Cuttings Wharf Road. The first offset measurement was taken the day of the earthquake -- about 6 cm (2 in) of...
(Left) The previous source model of the large earthquakes in this subduction zone. The 1906 earthquake has been interpreted as a megathrust event (Mw 8.8) ruptured all segments of 1942, 1958, and 1979 earthquakes. (Right) Our source model of...
This is an image of the Modi Khola river, Nepal.
Credit: Henry Pinder
Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth's most densely populated areas.
Large...
Carpanak, from peninsula to an island.
Credit: Image courtesy of EAWAG: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
The sediments of Lake Van in Eastern Anatolia (Turkey) are a valuable climate archive. Now, using the salinity measured in sediment porewater,...
Graduate student Reshmina William, left, and civil and environmental engineering professor Ashlynn Stillwell pause on the green roof over the Business Instructional Facility at the University of Illinois. Their research is helping to simultaneously evaluate the performance of green...
