National Harbor, Md. — Looking at face patterns in photos of more than 11,000 kinds of ants struck entomologist Clint Penick as a fine pandemic-lockdown project for his students. From that socially ...

Provocative new research suggests that fetuses have the ability to discern faces when they're still in the womb. A study involving 34-week-old fetuses found they were more likely to focus on a pattern ...

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 ...

As lockdown measures begin to ease, our thoughts are turning to how we can best protect ourselves and others as we begin to visit shops, return to work and meet friends and family. The government has ...

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Animal visual signals have the potential to act as an isolating barrier to prevent interbreeding of populations through a role in species recognition. Within communities of competing species, species ...

Acne breakouts can reveal underlying lifestyle habits and imbalances. Dermatologists link pimples in specific facial zones to triggers like oil produc ...

While circling Mars in 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft took pictures of its surface. One image created quite a bit of controversy: It’s impossible not to immediately see the pattern on the image.

Looser, Christine E., J. Swaroop Guntupalli, and Thalia Wheatley. "Multivoxel Patterns in Face-sensitive Temporal Regions Reveal an Encoding Schema Based on Detecting Life in a Face." Social Cognitive ...