Just because you think your children are extraordinary, doesn’t mean they are
By Eddie Brummelman, University of Amsterdam
It is natural for parents to value their child – and feeling valued is key to children’s well-being; but...
New York: where the streets are paved with hot dogs, donuts, burgers … and...
By Mike Jeffries, Northumbria University, Newcastle
New York is one of many cities whose mythical allure claims that the streets are paved with gold. Sadly,...
Could leading anti-malarial be used as an experimental treatment for bowel cancer?
By Sanjeev Krishna, St George's, University of London
While the medical world is transfixed by the urgency of finding and testing new potential treatments for...
Frequent flying is getting a lot more rewarding – for those at the very...
By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley and Volodymyr Bilotkach, Newcastle University
Frequent flyer programs are one of the primary ways airlines build customer loyalty....
Stigma about mental illness steers medical students away from psychiatry
By Adam Brenner, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Mental illness is a major public health problem in the United States. Suicide alone takes the lives of...
Vagaries of memory mean eyewitness testimony isn’t perfect
By Gary Wells, Iowa State University
Twenty eyewitnesses testified before the grand jury investigating the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. None of...
Bee crisis: global warming will cause onward march of exotic gut parasite
By Robert Paxton, Queen's University Belfast
An exotic parasite is spreading through the world’s honey bees and global warming is making it worse, according to...
Studying society via social media is not so simple
By Jürgen Pfeffer, Carnegie Mellon University and Derek Ruths, McGill University
Behavioral scientists have seized on social media and their massive data sets as a...
