Body-Swapping Experiment Shows How “Swapping Bodies” With a Friend Changes Our Sense of Self
Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say,…
Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say,…
Social distancing during COVID-19 creates new contexts for drug use. People have traded in nightclubs and dance festivals for virtual raves and Zoom happy hours…
New archaeological research in Saudi Arabia documents hundreds of stone structures interpreted as monumental sites where early pastoralists carried out rituals. The last decade has…
A team of scientists has concluded that our cognitive limitations lead to probability distortions and to subsequent errors in decision-making. The chances of a commercial…
When It Comes to Supporting Candidates, Ideology Trumps Race and Gender Prejudiced people will still vote for Black and female politicians, as long as ideologies…
Analysis of three mummified animals — a cat, a bird, and a snake — from Ancient Egypt using advanced 3D X-ray imaging is described in…
Population size seen as key driver of a strong urban economy. Cities transition to innovative economies when population reaches 1.2 million The largest cities will…
Breakthrough forensic research at Northumbria University, Newcastle, has revealed for the first time that textile fibers can, under certain circumstances, be transferred between clothing in…
Rising MIT sophomore finds satisfaction designing for the laboratory and the playing field. When Lauryn Kortman enrolled in Founder’s Journey, MIT’s entrepreneur-based first-year student seminar,…
Some 240 million years ago, a dolphinlike ichthyosaur ripped to pieces and swallowed another marine reptile only a little smaller than itself. Then it almost…
In new book, Prof. Katherine D. Kinzler argues that how you speak reflects who you are. Have you ever considered that the way you talk…
By introducing defects to a common material, Berkeley Lab researchers create a highly efficient capacitor with dramatically increased energy density. Capacitors that rapidly store and…
New Brain Study Shows How Obeying Orders Can Dull Our Empathy War atrocities are sometimes committed by ‘normal’ people obeying orders. Researchers from the Netherlands…
When paleontologists digging in a quarry in southwestern China uncovered the nearly complete skeleton of a giant, dolphin-like marine reptile known as an ichthyosaur, they…
Bill Hammack, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded the Hoover Medal. The award is named…
Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers using high-resolution 3D scans that give unprecedented detail about the animals’…
Biodegradable shoes meet commercial standards for products needed to help eradicate tons of plastic waste. As the world’s most popular shoe, flip-flops account for a…
In 2001, Dubai started construction on three large artificial islands in the Persian Gulf shaped like palm trees. A few years later, Doha began dredging…