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 ...

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, ...

As the brain attempts to organize the visual world, it hones in on familiar patterns — like the shape of a human face — and sometimes, it even concocts these patterns out of random noise. We spot ...

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 ...

The era of true crime podcasts is over. In an attempt to replicate the success of hits like “Serial” and “S-Town,” audio storytellers have been mass-producing true crime podcasts. Consequently, the ...

A cheeky smile from a burnt piece of toast or a sullen stare from the "eyes" of a wall socket — when you start to see faces in inanimate objects, you may be experiencing "pareidolia," a phenomenon in ...

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 ...

Inanimate objects attack me. Doors, tables, chairs, toilet seats, vacuum cleaners, keys, wallets, tools, cars, and computers - to name just a few of my enemies - have it out for me. They sneak up on ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...