Late last night, hundreds of warm bodies piled together in the 20° weather outside of the undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill. For ten minutes at midnight, Carolina students shed the weight of ...

While rarely discussed in polite company, research suggests that nasal exploration and subsequent tasting remains surprisingly prevalent across age groups and cultures. Scientists studying this ...

Social singing and dance are often assumed to be hard-wired into the human condition; studies have supported the conclusion that these are common across cultures. But new research from an ...

Unusually among human cultures, the Northern Aché people of Paraguay do not practice communal singing or dancing or sing to their children. (Photo of Aché building a traditional fishing dam by Kim ...