People use mental shortcuts to make difficult decisions – even highly trained doctors delivering...
Manasvini Singh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Being a physician is a difficult job. They must make complex, high-stakes decisions...
What’s behind phantom cellphone buzzes?
This is your brain on plugs.
'Brain' via www.shutterstock.comDaniel J. Kruger, University of Michigan
Have you ever experienced a phantom phone call or text? You’re convinced...
Computer Space launched the video game industry 50 years ago – here’s the real...
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The...
Low-cost sensors track CO2 where it counts
Alexis Shusterman, University of California, Berkeley
Earlier this summer, climate change was once again thrust into the global limelight, this time by an unlikely source...
Will there be enough fish to go around? Not if we follow healthy eating...
By Ruth H. Thurstan, The University of Queensland and Callum Roberts, University of York
Globally, we still catch enough fish to eat – just about....
Thanksgiving hymns are a few centuries old, tops – but biblical psalms of gratitude...
David W. Stowe, Michigan State University
Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday...
The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
In the turmoil of 1968, music failed to seize the moment
Alan Williams, University of Massachusetts Lowell
While the first half of 1968 was a series of explosive moments – the Tet Offensive, Paris protests, the...
