Short Wave's Scientist in Residence Regina G. Barber digs into the research—and how it might reveal a fundamental law of psychology about human satisfaction. (encore) Accessibility links ...

Research shows that small, everyday factors can drain your energy throughout the day without you even noticing. If you're feeling sluggish and don't know why, it could be the little things you are ...

"Engineers do innovative things, and that's still continuing," said cultural anthropologist Susan Mazur-Stommen, who directs the Behavior and Human Dimensions Program at the American Council for ...

Human behavior guided by fast changes in dopamine levels. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 12 / 231201173208.htm ...

Researchers using a new drone say they have observed killer whales finding and modifying stalks of kelp to preen each other.

MIT professor and computer scientist Alex “Sandy” Pentland delivered a special lecture during the NAE annual meeting that explored how tools like artificial intelligence and large language models ...

If you’re a cat parent, you’ve likely watched your furry friend knock things off shelves, zoom through the house at 2 a.m., ...

Disney Research, the innovation powerhouse behind The Walt Disney Company, has turned this into reality. Its latest creation is an autonomous humanoid robot that can mimic human emotions and ...

Analyzing data from over 100 individual trials involving more than 11,000 “healthy participants” found “inconclusive evidence” that physical exercise improves cognitive abil… ...

Yet, he suggests this behavior is totally recognizable in most every human society: We give things away even when keeping them for ourselves would seem to make much more economic and evolutionary ...