People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways—like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions—are regulated. Kavita Babu, ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Fig. 2: Collective Intelligence expands the perceptual field of a group of cells beyond the capacity of any individual, expanding ...

Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) are collaborating with colleagues from Frankfurt/Main, Oxford and Würzburg to investigate how the complex, cooperative behavior of honeybees ...

NOTICE: The Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) team summaries in this publication are based on IDR team discussions during the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Collective ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

Boredom is a common human experience that emerges in many situations of our daily life 1,2 and across various cultures 3. Furthermore, boredom has been characterized as an aversive mental state, ...

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Miniaturization is progressing rapidly in just any field and the trend towards the creation of ever smaller units is also prevalent in the world of robot technology. In the future, minuscule robots ...

We are constantly surrounded by temptations that are not in our best interest. That is, they are often neither in the best interest of us individually (e.g., succumbing to a sugar intake that is ...