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Investigating whether we truly have free will

Does something like "free will" really exist? We often take it for granted, but philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have debated the issue for decades—if not centuries. In his recent Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), titled "The Free Will Discussion: an

German paper challenges invasive raccoon myths

Raccoons are often seen as cute and harmless wildlife—but that is a misconception. "Raccoons are native animals," "They reproduce faster when hunted," "Everything about raccoons has already been said"—these are just a few of the persistent myths circulating about raccoons in

Gut length driven by 'sexual conflict' in fish species

A new study that looked at gut length variation between cichlid fish species found that some of the genetic loci for the trait are sex-specific even though males and females of the same species have the same gut length. The work supports a scenario of "sexual conflict," where