The Observer has compiled a list of 2025 guides, tutorials, and manuals designed to support psychological scientists as they ...

After nearly a century of chasing a shadow, physicists are staring at a new signal that looks uncannily like the long‑sought ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Robert Kelly is managing director of ...

Learn how the Linder Hypothesis connects similar income nations through trade, its demand-based theory, testing obstacles, and its economic impact.

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a thin watery layer. Scientists generally agree that this ...

This study provides important evidence that negative affect is associated with slower cognitive processing in daily life, with findings replicated across three independent samples and supported by ...

This potentially valuable cross-sectional longitudinal study leverages high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to examine its effect on ...

Is our world real, or are we just living inside a simulation? The simulation hypothesis suggests that everything we experience might just be an advanced computer program. Could our reality be nothing ...

Two papers challenged the existence of theorized particles called sterile neutrinos that might account for mysteries like the cosmos’s dark matter.

Alternative splicing is a process that enables a messenger RNA (mRNA) to direct synthesis of different protein variants (isoforms) that may have different cellular functions or properties. It occurs ...

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...