New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that ...

Of course, the dating-app questionnaires of today aren’t the same ones people were completing in 2013. And although major apps already use machine learning to note users’ preferences and to suggest ...

Our bodies can be quite sensitive to changes in daylight because we rely on it to regulate our circadian rhythms and our sleep-wake patterns.And because our internal body clocks don't keep a perfect ...

Imagine jumping out of an aeroplane and feeling nothing. No rush of adrenaline, or quickening heartbeat...."In that situation, SM and other individuals with amygdala damage will go nose-to-nose with ...

Researchers are designing studies that better represent how memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters.

"If APS is to thrive, we must come to terms with each of these issues," writes APS President James W. Pennebaker in his second presidential column.

Call your elected Representative and Senators to urge them to think of their constituents and fund the government. The ...

Autism is not one condition,” said Geraldine Dawson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. “It ...

“Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.” Once upon a time, long ago and far away (or perhaps not so long ago), ...

Recently, one of the researchers at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab was taking her 4-year-old son for a walk through the campus. The little boy looked up at the famous campanile ...

From claims about election fraud to warnings about microchips in vaccines, social media sites have been flooded with a tsunami of misinformation and ever-more-outlandish conspiracy theories. Some of ...