Words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ or ‘here’ and ‘there’ occur in all languages. In a study published in PNAS, researchers...
Researchers who study belief dynamics often use analogies to understand and model the complex cognitive–social systems that underlie why we...
A new study has found that a person’s face tends to evolve to suit their name. The researchers sought to...
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are affected by armed conflict, both directly, through loss of life, or indirectly,...
Research by George Mason professor Martin Wiener recently demonstrated that the more memorable an image is, the longer and more...
The intuition to distill hard numbers like “90 percent” into words like “almost all” may help make science and statistics...
Researchers from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice have uncovered insights into ancient pottery forming techniques using X-ray micro-computed tomography (microCT)....
Rock art explored by archaeologists in the Colombian Amazon has provided an insight into the complex relationship between the earliest...
In the Middle Ages, alchemists were notoriously secretive and didn’t share their knowledge with others. Danish Tycho Brahe was no...
It’s hard to know what Neanderthals ate: food preparation, especially when it comes to smaller items like birds, can leave...
As restaurants increasingly embrace technology for placing food orders, a new University of South Florida study reveals that digital ordering...
Archaeological evidence from the world-famous Mesolithic site of Star Carr in North Yorkshire has shown that hunter-gatherers likely kept an...
