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 ...

We give meaning to our world through the categorization of objects. When and how does this process begin? By studying the gaze of one hundred infants, scientists have demonstrated that, by the age of ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Living beings and inanimate phenomena may have more in common than previously thought. At least that is the view of Duke University engineer Adrian Bejan and Penn State biologist James ...

Do animals - like humans - divide the world into things that move and things that don't? Are they surprised if an apparently inanimate object jumps to life? The researchers tested how jackdaws ...

Whether we know it or not, we categorize all the time. “You’re just like your mother!” “That’s like the pair I got in New York.” He’s the kind of doctor, lawyer, etc., who….” We do it with animate and ...