Injecting reflective particles into the atmosphere won’t immediately cool the entire planet. A new study shows how parts of the US, China and Europe might still see temperatures rising a decade later.

Why is it so difficult to swat a fly? A team of insect experts explains how a fly’s sophisticated vision allows it to quickly react to visual cues.

Researchers examined the brain waves of children with and without autism to see how they process movement and body language.

To achieve perceptual expertise, you may need more than smarts and hard work. Research suggests there’s a general ability that may help you succeed in jobs that depend on perceptual decisions.

Americans are more forgiving of lies when they come from politicians in their own party, research finds.

Human brains constantly face ambiguous sensory inputs. To correctly perceive the world, our brains use a process known as causal inference.

New research shows how categories, such as names, bias our perception of very similar faces.

If you see a face in a tree trunk or your toast in the morning, you're more likely to perceive it as male, a new study shows.

If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.