APS recently submitted comments on the NIH's proposed changes to peer review based off of a working group recommendation. The proposed changes would hide the numerical score a grant receives from ...

Ridgway and his University of Nevada, Las Vegas colleagues met to analyze narratives written by mass shooting survivors, a ...

For a long time, the idea that we would have A.I.s or robots that we could talk to, interact with, integrate into our personal lives — that was fantasy, science fiction....Alison Gopnik, the child ...

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David Strayer, a professor of cognition and neural science at the University of Utah, co-authored a 2025 study that investigated how movement in nature influences brain activity. “We took measurements ...

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When Fan Yang’s children came home complaining about a crafting class, they had a particularly strong advocate. “They said, ‘They don’t let us take home our creations,’” Yang, a research associate ...

Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you’re there? Or struggled to recall where you left your keys?These memory lapses aren’t unusual, especially as we age, but a new paper published ...

Many modern daters seem to have the same complaint: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Possible mates abound—on dating apps, in the databases of professional matchmakers—but none of ...

Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure ...

Abstract Behavioral science has achieved remarkable policy influence, yet the problems it addresses, such as climate change, health inequality, and financial precarity, have worsened. We argue this is ...