A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

Explore an interactive avian tree of life that reveals how 11,000 bird species are connected through millions of years of ...

Recent experimental findings suggest that the hippocampus, the brain region primarily associated with memory and navigation, actively reorganizes its neural patterns to anticipate future events.

Design an explicit, three-part learning sequence: The learning sequence starts with a pre-visit phase, followed by an outdoor visit phase, followed by a post-visit phase. Each part of the sequence ...

Why do some animals eat feces? Here are some biological reasons for it and what you can do about it as a pet owner.

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

Precocial animals, the ones that move autonomously within hours after hatching or birth, have many biases they are born with ...

Animal groups show how simple actions create shared intelligence, shaping technology, health research, and crowd safety.

A figure from the research paper shows that both the model and experimental animals learned a task at a very similar pace. A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and ...

This research presents a comprehensive framework for constructing and applying student portraits in personalized education through advanced data analytics and knowledge graph technology. The study ...