The base rate fallacy may help to explain low reproducibility in various fields of science.
Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.
We all play the genetic lottery – and the outcome matters a lot.
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Until recently, video games were accused of killing brain cells. Now, researchers are trying to understand how they help players get smarter.
On July 12, 2022, JWST will release its first science images. Here are 5 ways the telescope’s findings could change science forever.
Scientists found a way to revert pain in mice using gene therapy. Perhaps the same technique could be applied to humans.
Experimental archaeology is the practice of recreating past events using knowledge and tools available at the time. Sometimes, it involves elephants.
It could make enough drinking water for a family of four.
The spooky world of quantum mechanics might reach out and touch you — by mutating your DNA. Welcome to the weird world of quantum biology.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
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Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Best in class: Denmark and Uruguay. Worst in class: Papua New Guinea, Venezuela, and Russia.
Grandmasters and drug dealers have one thing in common: They are many steps ahead of their rivals.
Smashing things together at unprecedented energies sounds dangerous. But it’s nothing the Universe hasn’t already seen, and survived.
Wyoming’s roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland’s. California’s road safety is on par with Romania’s.
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
Like some cold poison creeping up our veins, there’s a frisson in the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe.
The US reduced smoking rates from 50% to 15% with a simple habit hack.
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Humans who’ve lived through the same events often remember them differently. Could quantum physics be responsible?
Here’s your gateway to enjoying the best of literature.
A new study of Martian dust gives insights into the ancient Martian climate. The findings hint at a wetter world.
It’s time to put on your listening hat.
The plant-like sea creatures contain a molecule that improves memory, learning, and even hair quality, according to a new study in mice.
In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?