Human Factors
Mind & Meaning
Psychology and the human experience under pressure. From the introvert who needs three days alone after a party to the astronaut managing isolation on the ISS — Mind & Meaning explores how people make sense of themselves and others, and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Human Factors
When economists paid about 2,800 Facebook users to deactivate their accounts for…
Human Behaviour
It takes about 50 hours of contact for two adults to feel like casual friends, 90…
Human Factors
We tend to imagine the adult brain as fixed, but when Harvard researchers scanned…
Human Factors
Only 0.001 percent of the deep ocean floor has ever been seen by human eyes
Psychology
When Gloria Mark started tracking computer screens in 2004, people lingered about…
Human Behaviour
People who spend more time arranging their task manager than completing tasks…
Science & Engineering
The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched into a single thin line, would extend…
Science & Engineering
For nearly two decades, researchers have been demonstrating in mice that the blood…
Human Factors
The single loudest sound ever recorded was the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in…
Science & Engineering
In 2003, an Oxford philosopher named Nick Bostrom published an argument that we are…
Science & Engineering
A small study linked nighttime scent exposure with better performance on one memory…
Science & Engineering
Sixty years before ChatGPT, a chatbot called ELIZA was already making people pour…
Human Factors
There is a documented psychological shift, first described by astronauts who saw…
Psychology
Scientists studying centenarians — people who live past 100 — have found that they…
Human Factors