In 2008, psychologists proposed that when humans are shown an unfamiliar face, they judge it on two main dimensions: trustworthiness and physical strength. T...

The use of scientific methodology to study science itself is called metascience. The discipline, which has become mainstream in recent years, got a new boost...

The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymaths rub shoulders wit...

The number of people with food allergies has risen sharply in the last few decades, especially in Western nations. Around 8% of American children now have a ...

Misuse of commonly used statistical methods have for long plagued scholarly research, resulting in big claims being drawn from weak evidence. Now, the Americ...

In 2015, Anthony Blas Yepez was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison after killing George Ortiz, his girlfriend’s step-grandfather. Now, Yepez’s lawyer,...

Maybe you’ve heard about the cat who co-authored a scientific paper—but what about the dog? That would be Grandmother Liboiron, owned by Max Liboiron, an env...

A series of reports published last month shed light on how fatigued researchers are from conducting peer review on each others’ work. Researchers are voicing...

Decades of research have focused on how the brain acquires information, resulting in theories about how short-term memories are stored in the brain. What has...

Many areas of science are facing questions over the reproducibility of findings reported in scholarly literature. Researchers haven't always been the best at...

The web is fragile. In March 2016, software developer Azer Koçulu famously broke the internet by taking 11 lines of open source computer code he had written ...

A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable. The whole article was ...

Coding is often treated as second-class activity in scientific research but a new tool launched by the Vancouver-based research software firm Impactstory — D...

With constant floods of information into academic literature, science publishers are rapidly realising that the need for brevity is more apparent than ever b...

From dancing pedestrian lights that encourage safer road crossing to painting babies’ faces on shop shutters to discourage robbery, implementing insights fro...

When designer and cycling enthusiast Florian Born moved to Berlin, one thing that bugged him was the number of bumps and potholes on the city's roads. So he ...

A staggering 1.3 billion people worldwide still don’t have access to electricity, and 95 percent of these people are based in either Sub-Saharan Africa or As...