The earliest true primates, called “euprimates,” lived about 55 million years ago across what is now North America. Two major fossil euprimate groups existed…
By 2025, India is expected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country, due to higher fertility rates and a younger population. However, a new study…
Most people don't find it more difficult to lie in a foreign language than in their native tongue. However, things are different when telling the truth: This…
When what we want as individuals clashes with what is best for the group, we have a social dilemma. How can we overcome these dilemmas, and encourage people to…
The American city of Cleveland was once a flourishing metropolis – thanks to its steel and automotive industries. But in the last century, with the opening of…
Goals in soccer only provide limited information about a team’s performance and the quality of its players: Goals are scored only rarely in soccer, and can…
They identified that while there are less people tweeting, there are a group of people who tweet prolifically. This suggests there is a concentrated core of…
“This research reveals that air pollution may have potential ethical costs that go beyond its well-known toll on health and the environment,” says behavioral…
First-borns are more likely to graduate from medical training and engineering programs at university, while later-borns are more likely to study journalism and…
That is the implication of a new study which shows for the first time that there is a broad range of differences in people's visual ability and that these…
Reading is such a new ability in human evolutionary history that the existence of a ‘reading area’ could not be specified in our genes. A kind of recycling…
New research from Caltech now shows that the activation of face cells depends highly on where you are paying attention–it is not enough for a face to simply…
Michigan State University researchers studied laptop use in an introductory psychology course and found the average time spent browsing the web for…
Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield provide new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the U.S., by…
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7…
On average, as lives get longer, the difference in the age at which people die becomes smaller. By analyzing data from 44 countries, researchers have now…
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