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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bobby Moore looks into the unusual phenomenon of people forming romantic attachments and marriages to inanimate objects.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When she goes to the grocery store, Lilianna Wilde will sometimes go for the shopping cart from which everyone else steers clear, ...

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 ...

Wind chill is not relevant for inanimate objects. The wind chill index combines the cooling effect of air temperature and wind on exposed human skin. The rate at which our bodies lose heat increases ...

What do you see when you look at the above photo, or any electric outlet? If you see a face, you're probably neurotic. Researchers at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan, ...