New four-legged robots designed to work together to accomplish difficult tasks
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Tag: social
Ants handle social isolation about as well as humans do — poorly
Social isolation can lead to a lower tolerance for stress, lower interest in socializing and keeping clean, as well as ...
Exercising with your partner can help after a heart attack
Changing habits is easier when you're not doing it alone.
Researchers list the 10 lifestyle choices most likely to kill you
What doesn't kill you might, in fact, only be slowly killing you.
Anti-vaccine groups are actively targeting ‘undecideds’ on social media
"It's on the Internet so it must be true". Not.
Screen time doesn’t make kids less social, inter-generational analysis reveals
Social distancing means more time inside for our youngsters, and that also means more screen time. However, a new study ...
Flamingos form complex social ties that last over the years
It's funny that they're probably socializing more than us right now.
Quarantine, school closure, and social distancing could reduce the spread of COVID-19 by 70%
Staying at home really does work.
Vampire bats make friends in captivity — and keep them after release
A new study looking into social bonding dynamics for vampire bats reports that friendships they make in captivity are likely ...
Facebook might have more dead users than alive by 2100
This.... this is a novel problem.
Native American societies had their own brand of ‘social media’
Do you think they drunkenly made embarrassing pots and regretted it the next day?
Life satisfaction hinges not on what you do — but who you do it with
It's dangerous to go alone -- take some friends.
Mice will pick social rules over might-makes-right, hinting at the birth of human societies and laws
The basis of any civilized society.
Dominant wasps hand out breaks when workers are scarce, become horrible bosses when they’re plentiful
Wasps should really form their own labor union.
Monkey Business: Popular Girls Have Less Lice
It pays off to have many friends, especially if you're a macaque.
How culture migrated and expanded from city to city in the past 2,000 years
Using nothing but birth and death records, sociologists at Northeastern University developed a working framework that details the migration patterns ...
General intelligence is rooted in social functions
Recent findings suggest that our general cognitive abilities are heavily influenced by key regions of the brain involved in social ...