Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

That scratch on your arm, that scrape on your knee - they're taking their sweet time to heal, and it's likely the fault of your fur, or, really, your lack thereof. Testing the speed of skin healing in ...

We are the worst primates when it comes to wound healing, according to a new study. Our wounds heal nearly three times slower than those of chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, and other ...

Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and spontaneously mimic these expressions, according to ...

Crying is one of the most recognizable human emotional signals. Tears appear when people experience grief, relief, joy, or deep stress. Because this response is so familiar, observers often assume ...

UCL scientists found that human skulls evolved much faster than those of other apes, reflecting the powerful forces driving our brain growth and facial flattening. By comparing 3D models of ape skulls ...

On dry nights, the San hunter-gatherers of Namibia often sleep under the stars. They have no electric lights or new Netflix releases keeping them awake. Yet when they rise in the morning, they haven’t ...

Stories centered around true love's kiss might be tales as old as time. And, according to a new study, kisses might even have been around before humans walked the earth. Humans kiss each other ...

As a wildlife veterinarian specializing in monkeys, I applaud Oregon Health & Science University’s recent decision to negotiate with the National Institutes of Health to end experiments on monkeys ...