What social robots can teach America’s students
Gerald K. LeTendre, Penn State
How would you feel if your child were being tutored by a robot?
Some kindergartners are more likely to be heavy users of online tech later, according...
Paul L. Morgan, Penn State
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Specific groups of kindergartners in the U.S. are...
Why can’t Americans agree on, well, nearly anything? Philosophy has some answers
James Steiner-Dillon, University of Dayton
Does wearing a mask stop the spread of COVID-19? Is climate change driven primarily...
Lips are the most exposed erogenous zone, which makes kissing feel very good
By Sheril Kirshenbaum, University of Texas at Austin
Scientists in the Netherlands have reported that we share about 80m bacteria during a passionate ten-second kiss;...
Sequencing the genome of newborns in the US: Are we ready?
Tom Diacovo, University of Pittsburgh and Gerard Vockley, University of Pittsburgh
Twenty-four to 48 hours after birth, every newborn in the U.S. will have a...
Marijuana legalization – a rare issue where women are more conservative than men
Laurel Elder, Hartwick College and Steven Greene, North Carolina State University
Surveys show that on issue after issue, women are more liberal than men, save...
Virtual reality tours give rural students a glimpse of college life
Carol Cutler White, Mississippi State University
The first time that Nyah visited the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a campus tour, there wasn’t...
The shaming of Walter Palmer for killing Cecil the Lion
Jennifer Jacquet, New York University
US trophy hunter Walter Palmer must be the world’s most hated dentist.
News that Palmer had killed Cecil, a handsome and...