While exploring ancient Egyptian temples, researchers found massive stone structures that clearly predated dynastic Egypt. Builders were forced to turn temples into strange L-shapes after running into ...

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An unprecedented brain study has delivered fresh clues about consciousness—suggesting it's more about perception than planning. Two leading theories went head-to-head, but neither emerged victorious.

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. AI is coming for music, too While large language models that ...

Researchers recently conducted an open diffusion experiment to explore how capuchin monkeys learn novel behaviors, shedding light on the roles of social learning, observation, and affiliative ...

Science historian with a specific interest in the history of social psychology., The University of Melbourne A new translation of a 2018 book by French science historian Thibault Le Texier challenges ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter. Now, researchers at the ...

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...

In August 1971, at the tail end of summer break, the Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo recruited two dozen male college students for what was advertised as “a psychological study of prison ...