Most people carry an unexamined expectation about ageing. It runs roughly as follows: getting older means getting worse — slower, less capable, less interesting, less relevant.
Personality tests are taken by an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of job applicants in the United States who reach a certain stage in the hiring process.
A 2023 study published in the Journal of Religion and Health followed a nationwide sample of adults living with chronic illness and found that those who prayed…
The 1998 "door study" became the textbook demonstration of change blindness. Read in full, it is stranger and more careful than the viral version, and it says less about memory than about how little of a stranger we bother to encode.
Robot the dog never received an entry in the historical record. The four teenagers who descended into the Lascaux cave on 12 September 1940 are, by every…
The man who invented the adhesive that holds together approximately 50 billion office notes per year spent six years walking around the 3M corporate campus…
The most credible UFO encounter in modern American military history happened to a man who was, by every measurable standard, the last person in the United States Navy who should have been seeing things that were not there.
Sister Mary should not, by any reasonable interpretation of late-20th-century Alzheimer's neuropathology, have been able to teach seventh and eighth grades for…
Edward Tronick — now in his eighties, Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, director of its Child Development Unit, and one of the…
Nobody knows who invented the letter A. Nobody knows who invented the letter B, or C, or almost any other letter of the writing systems used by the world's major languages.
The original wallpaper concept was, by every available account from the period, a perfectly reasonable mid-century product idea.
The Eiffel Tower's existence, in its original 1880s context, was a deeply contested proposition.
Every other country that has ever built a high-speed rail system has, sooner or later, killed people with it.
On 26 September 1991, eight people entered Biosphere 2, a sealed glass and steel structure in Oracle, Arizona, built to test whether a human-made ecosystem could keep people alive for two years.
The boundary between what computers can do and what only humans can do has moved many times across the past 80 years, but it has rarely moved in a way that anyone could see happening in real time.
A new synthesis from early childhood neuroscience argues that shared laughter does specific, measurable work in the infant brain — though the full picture is more incremental than the headlines suggest.
