Researchers at Queen Mary University in London peered into the beady square pupil eyes of a goat and asked the single worst question one can ask about a goat: “Could this thing be more like a dog?”

Cats seem pretty apathetic about a lot of things. You might think music is one of them. But according to a new study, it's not that cats don't care about music – it's that they don't care about YOUR music. So what kind of music do cats appreciate? We're so glad you asked.

Oxytocin is often referred to as the "trust hormone," a claim that was reinforced by a 2005 study in which participants became more trusting after it was administered via a nasal spray. Trouble is, few studies have been able to reproduce this result, prompting at least one neuroscientist to suggest it's high-time we…

Can pretending to fly around like Superman inspire you to save the day? Does great power truly encourage great responsibility? A new study suggests that stepping into the role of a superhero in the virtual world could spark more helpful behavior in reality, at least briefly.

The wider a man's face is, the more likely he is to deceive others and cheat to get ahead...or so a new study claims. Is this just the new phrenology, or could there be something to the idea?

Would you trust this robot? It all depends on how well it is programmed to mimic the nonverbal gestures and tics that humans use to signal their trustworthiness. Yes, Nexi the Robot is cracking the code of why humans trust.

A long-simmering debate in sports is whether home-court advantage - an increase in performance when competing in familiar surroundings - actually exists. An experiment involving lots of mouse fighting says it absolutely does. It's all down to brain chemistry.

Is chocolate as addictive as heroin? Possibly. In a new study, mice willingly subjected themselves to electrical shocks in pursuit of a chocolate treat.