Facial mimicry refers to automatic copying of another person’s facial expressions. When one person smiles, a listener may ...

Evolutionarily speaking, the ultimate goal of a lifeform is to reproduce and stave off extinction. Many plants and animals ...

The apparent mimicry found in cutting-edge AI technologies like GPT-4 or Large Language Models (LLMs) is nothing short of astounding. It’s this "marvel of mimicry" that got me thinking about the human ...

Researchers have shown that inedible species of butterfly that mimic each others' color patterns have also evolved similar flight behaviors to warn predators and avoid being eaten. Researchers have ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

The emergence and rapid outbreak of a novel coronavirus, namely, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in China in 2019, caused a global pandemic, which is popularly known as ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

How do you get someone to like you, find you more appealing, or feel comfortable around you? How do you balance flirting and building rapport with a date? In past posts, we have looked at these ...