In behavioral research, it is largely assumed that people adapt their personal behavior to match the behavior of a reference group. A distinction is made between descriptive norms—the assumption that ...

I'll admit it, I spend most mornings scanning through medical headlines before my coffee even kicks in. "New drug slashes heart disease risk by 40%", "Exercise may cut cancer recurrence", or ...

Comparing a map of the neurons in a nematode worm - the connectome - with a map of how signals travel across those neurons ...

The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.

An introduction to the structure of deductive arguments, how to evaluate them, and why a bad argument doesn’t necessarily ...

It has been repeatedly seen that aspirational borrowers generally apply for personal loans, gold loans, home loans, credit cards, and other similar credit lines without understanding the intricacies ...

This study addresses an important question and shows how social navigation in homing pigeons can be explained by simple averaging, without requiring any complex cognitive abilities. The evidence, ...

In new research published today in Science, a team of astronomers report the detection of a surprising substance in a brown ...

In brief, the evidence points to three core results: board independence and female representation are positively associated ...