Whenever we look at something unfamiliar for the first time, it's only human nature that we look for the familiar in it. Even given the huge variety of what turns up in the animal kingdom, it's only ...

Facial recognition is just one way that people differentiate one person from another, but it's not unique to humans; non-human primates innately exhibit this ability too. Recognizing facial features ...

As a child, you likely saw a few Disney movies depicting inanimate objects, such as clocks, cups and toys, as interactive ...

A black vulture in Brazil was caught doing something that left birdwatchers baffled: carefully settling its warm brood patch ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...

Seeing faces in common objects is not unusual. You might have seen the “man in the moon”, or seen faces in electrical outlets or sliced bell peppers. A new study from the National Institute of Mental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you say "sorry" to random objects, you're probably a very conscientious person. We've all done it, but some of us do it more ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

How inanimate objects become symbols of masculine insecurity ...