Social ties to classmates and how students feel could be more important than innate ability when it comes to enduring early STEM weed-out...

Online badges don’t motivate researchers to share their data when submitting to a medical journal, the first ever randomised controlled...

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

You may not believe what you believed before. It might feel as if you’ve squandered your grant money on research that you no longer stand...

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

Every year, people at hundreds of schools and workplaces around the world are taught how to stand like Superman. The rationale behind...

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 typically spend more than six hours a day in front of a screen. That rises to around eight hours...

Young people today seem more connected than ever to their peers. Compared to older generations, the under-25 crowd grew up with laptops,...

Recently the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) solicited research proposals on developing automated tools...

I spoke to Heather Goldstone of Living Lab Radio about the Loss of Confidence project, which I recently wrote a feature article about for...

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

Large-scale disasters produce ripple effects well beyond the physical damage they cause. Around a quarter of those who endure...

When Dutch researchers developed an open-source algorithm designed to flag statistical errors in psychology papers, it received mixed...

A study of how people perceive human faces will kick off a new initiative to massively scale up, accelerate, and reproduce psychology...

Do people have a problem placing trust in one another? At least in an abstract, globalized sense, the answer is yes, according to a study...

A popular theory suggesting people perceive others wearing red as more attractive has come under fire. Read the full article at Slate...

In 2012, several media headlines touted the narrative of what seemed like a groundbreaking study, which claimed that techniques used to...

Analytical techniques of four studies by a prominent Cornell University researcher came into question after the scientist blogged about...

Art of the Brick, an exhibition made of more than 1 million LEGO bricks, is set to open in London on 26th September. The full story was...