Jeans that fit perfectly. The ideal Netflix show for a Tuesday night. Your one and only soulmate. Modern life promises that with enough options, you will happily find the best of everything.But ...

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics....This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition evolved long before ...

An eclectic collection of seven articles and four commentaries showcase the power and ongoing challenges of multidisciplinary ...

I spoke with five researchers and clinicians who say they’re concerned about the possibility that too many people are being diagnosed with mild autism. They say that some individuals who have received ...

Dogs] have different relationships in different places of the world, and so when we approach understanding dogs as a species, we do so from this narrow perspective of Western culture,” said Espinosa, ...

There’s a reason why no one ever talks about “the bad old days.” A nostalgic longing for bygone times—and a sense that the present doesn’t stack up well against the past—is a common ...

It’s not gene equals disease,” Valerie Reyna, a professor and neuroscience researcher at Cornell University, explained to me. Although a specific gene may elevate the risk for a particular ailment, ...

This wasn’t just in my head. In a 2017 study led by the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, researchers at the University of Oxford found that nights out with friends support mental and emotional ...

Matthias Mehl, a social psychologist at the University of Arizona, who helped conduct the study, recently set out to replicate his findings with a larger data set: audio from more than two thousand ...

You might think spending more time relaxing would make you happier.But recent research suggests that having more leisure time doesn’t necessarily make people more likely to rate their day as happy.

The award supplements the sabbatical allowance provided by each researcher’s institution for the 2026–2027 academic year, ...

APS issues comments on the Office of Management and Budget's rule proposed on May 29th, 2026. The proposal would strip the current checks and balance system ensuring funding is given on the basis of ...