Scientists found that most existing research on microplastics in food packaging cannot be trusted.

A new study challenges a leading explanation for why auditory stimulation, such as pink noise, can improve cognitive ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical ...

A new study finds that single adults in both the United States and Japan report lower well-being than their married peers.

New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes, influenced both by the patterns of secondary variants, or genetic background, and by how ...

Teacher shortages in Estonia are a growing problem, mainly due to the lack of a long-term national strategy, a recent study ...

Breakups can take years to emotionally recover from, with research indicating it takes over four years for the emotional bond ...

The link between social media use and poorer wellbeing is modest and shaped by our genetics, researchers in the Netherlands ...

A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact. Scientific research offers many benefits to ...

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Germany, and ...

Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of flexible, relational reasoning that comes naturally to humans. Program ...