Deep anxieties about the meaning of life and existence itself
Opening my social media feed, I’m often confronted with a jarring contrast: intense, diametrically opposed…
Hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of men and women
Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for…
Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make
There’s an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random…
Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information
When the Trump administration gave Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to a massive database of…
How AI is challenging the credibility of some online courses
Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials…
Do you speak cat? Take this quiz to find out
While often miscast as mysterious or hard to understand, cats are actually excellent communicators. In…
News Influencers Fact Sheet | Pew Research Center
The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and…
SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life
As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century,…
the dark side of researching popular species
Biologists often form deep bonds with the species they study. For some, that relationship begins…
Cuts to key research facilities threaten Australia’s ability to be a global scientific leader
There has been much excitement since Australia signed a landmark agreement with the United States…