Hartshorne and Germine's 2015 Psychological Science paper suggests that cognitive abilities peak on different timetables, from speed in youth to vocabulary much later.
The space race that produced Vostok 1 had begun in earnest approximately three and a half years earlier, on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the…
The letter's author, Alfred Russel Wallace, was 35 years old, the seventh of nine children of a financially declining English family, largely self-educated…
On the first night, 7 January 1610, Galileo recorded what he was seeing in his observation notebook with the careful, slightly bemused understatement of a researcher who knew he was looking at something interesting but did not yet know what.
Replaying a conversation can be ordinary reflection or repetitive negative thinking. Research does not support assuming that everyone who does it is processing words they were once unable to say.
Carstensen's socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that perceived future time, not age alone, helps shape social preferences and emotional priorities in later life.
Hartshorne and Germine's 2015 Psychological Science paper suggests that cognitive abilities peak on different timetables, with vocabulary cresting much later than speed.
Roopkund Lake sits at 5,029 metres above sea level in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand, India, between the peaks of Trishul and Nanda Ghunti.
Kim and Maglio's 2025 paper suggests that trying to force happiness may consume the self-regulatory effort needed for the behaviours that support well-being.
For most of the history of thinking about animal minds, behaviour was the only evidence on offer.
The Chinese hospital workers digging an air raid shelter in 1971 expected to find rock, soil, and possibly some inconveniently large tree roots.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, American psychiatry was in the middle of a public credibility crisis.
Edward Tronick's still-face research found that even securely attached mother-infant pairs are out of emotional sync most of the time — and that what predicts secure attachment is not the frequency of attuned moments, but the reliability of repair after rupture.
The Chinese word for gunpowder is 火藥 (huǒyào), which translates as "fire medicine.
On the morning of 29 March 1974, a Chinese farmer named Yang Zhifa, working with five of his brothers and a neighbour named Wang Puzhi, was digging a well in…
The everyday language around batteries has settled into something convenient: we "charge" them, they "run out," we "top them up" when we can.
