More successful: Shy mice visited problem-solving tasks more often than their bold counterparts ... We don't put up a paywall – we believe in free access to information of public interest. Media ...

The result? Shyer mice, not the bold ones, were more likely to visit problem-solving tasks repeatedly, increasing their chance of success. This challenges a common assumption in animal behavior ...

This doesn't sound like much, until you remember 1% of adults in Australia is more than 200,000 people. That's a lot of people struggling with severe problems. Based on recent prevalence surveys ...

Why do some animals solve problems while others don’t? The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, now featured on the cover of Oikos, tackles this question with an ...

The Trump administration's tariffs are disrupting some manufacturers like "Man and Machine," which faces increased costs and international trade challenges.

Shy mice, it turns out, have a higher chance of succeeding than their bold counterparts. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology tested the problem-solving abilities of 100 ...

The biggest current question facing Australia may not be whether it can trust the U.S., but whether it can have the confidence to trust itself. The central pillar of Australia’s international ...

Perhaps we’ll get there. Or perhaps it’s already too late for some of our most wicked problems. It is to the credit of the Australia Institute that it refuses to allow us to die wondering.