human development
Massive organism is crashing on our watch
Utah State University researchers Paul Rogers and Darren McAvoy have conducted the first complete assessment of the Pando aspen clone and the results show…
Decision-making research in children: Rules of thumb are learned with time
Which city has the larger population: Chicago or Akron? If you don’t know, you might base your judgement on which of the two names you recognize. This…
Study shows how judgment of sensory simultaneity may develop in the brain
It turns out that the ability to judge such sensory inputs as simultaneous, and therefore likely pertaining to the same thing, is something animal brains must…
Breakthrough in generating embryonic cells that are critical for human health
Neural crest cells arise early in the development of vertebrates, migrate extensively through the embryo, and differentiate to give rise to a wide array of…
Risk taking across the life span: The effects of hardship
The propensity to take risks in an everyday context decreases with age in most countries, including Germany, Russia, and the US. In these countries, men on…
Trust your head or your gut? How we decide depends on experience
Whether we make everyday decisions based on our gut or our reason has little to do with what kind of a decision maker we are. Instead, the content of the…