Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed verbal thinking occurs through minimal differences of sound within a language. Change-a-Letter puzzles test this theory.

Psychology says that people who barely post anything on social media are not boring but actually smarter because they are better at not comparing themselves to others.

A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly ...

What causes workplace sexual harassment? How can we continue to better understand it? And what can be done to prevent it? Successful answers to questions like these need a good scientific explanation.

Andragogy promises autonomy and respect, but who decides when learners deserve it, and what counts as learning in the first ...

George Eliot saw literature as uniquely capable of extending our sympathies, but her work engaged deeply with scientific ...

The director of Duke University’s Mind & Culture Lab conducts research that sits at the intersection of culture, development, ...

Some habits that get written off as ‘rude’ or ‘weird,’ especially in social situations, are probably being analyzed in the wrong context.

From historical analogies to game theory models, Dr Xueqin Jiang has built a global following by arguing that geopolitics follows patterns that can be studied, modelled, and, to some extent, predicted ...

The cognitive battlespaceThe ongoing confrontation between the United States and Iran is no longer defined solely by missiles ...