Here’s some news you desperately need today: A team of intrepid scientists has boldly gone where others have never dared, into the minds of tiny prairie voles in love. By studying the neural circuits ...

Using cutting-edge gene editing technology researchers have engineered prairie voles with no oxytocin receptors. These notoriously monogamous mammals were thought to rely on oxytocin to form crucial ...

From enraptured voles and space robots on the moon to brain gears and dense objects, it was a heck of a week in science. Let's take a look at some of the most interesting developments over the past ...

The vital role of oxytocin—the “love hormone”—for social attachments is being called into question. More than forty years of pharmacological and behavioral research has pointed to oxytocin receptor ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — What can humans learn about love from other species? A fuzzy little prairie vole led researchers from the University of Texas at Austin to more answers on how to find lasting ...

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Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford Medicine have found that the receptor for the hormone oxytocin, which has ...

The selection of a suitable nest (den) site should enhance individual survival and reproduction. We examined the effects of forage quality, vegetative cover, presence of preexisting underground nests, ...

Researchers find that the relationship between prairie vole couples suffers when the male has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn't - similar to what has been observed in human couples.

Prairie voles are one of the few mammal species that mates for life. They are socially monogamous and form lifelong bonds with their partners, making nests and raising pups together and showing high ...