The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

In A Nutshell Category recognition starts early: Two-month-old infants’ brains already organize objects into meaningful categories: alive vs. not alive, big vs. small, despite having blurry vision and ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

If something looks and sounds stupid, but it really works, then it’s not actually stupid! Problems don’t always need to be solved with fancy, expensive, and high-tech approaches. All you really need ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

The agent acquires a vocabulary of neuro-symbolic concepts for objects, relations, and actions, represented through a ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

Researchers have learned a lot about how memory works. Their insights form the basis of clever strategies that help us remember better. Here are four easy-to-use techniques.

Unless you worked for Ford’s plastics, paint and vinyls division in the 1980s, you probably don’t know the name Jim Moylan. But you might well know the idea that made this unknown engineer who ...

Science. It looks like an 'Indiana Jones' movie, but it's an archaeological bombshell: a researcher deciphers the Dead Sea Scrolls Science. Archaeology earthquake: pit full of skulls found in ...

The simple, satisfying joy of taking basic building blocks and creating something wonderfully complex is at the very heart of a factory-building game that has just powered up on the Xbox Store – ...