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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nick Robideau’s 2017 play “Inanimate,” now in its Midwest premiere at Theater Wit, explores widely relatable themes through the lens of a highly specific, little-understood experience. On its face, it ...

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 ...

Every year, we celebrate the movies and television that stood out from the rest over the previous twelve months. We honor actor and actresses, filmmakers and writers, composers and costume designers.

When Isabella Sara Novack started reading One Piece as child, she didn't expect to be engaging in a life long commitment. Now she is 24, addicted to anime, and studies Japanese in her free time. Born ...

I've been playing video games since roughly around the time I developed the cognitive function to do so. I do not claim to know everything about every game, but I am always willing to learn. Zoan ...