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...
Why do human children stay so small for so long?
By John Skoyles, University College London
Why does it take so long for human children to grow up? A male chimp and male human, for...
What that ‘BPA-free’ label isn’t telling you
By Brian Zikmund-Fisher, University of Michigan and Laura Scherer, University of Missouri
Purchase a plastic water bottle, and there’s a good chance that it will...
Pope Francis’s ‘American problem’
By Massimo Faggioli, University of St. Thomas
In late November, the Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis is going to visit the United States of America...
Shared pride, then and now
By Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University
The film Pride, which won the Queer Palm Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is based on the...
Hype around cannabis as a treatment for cancer is undeserved
By Victoria Forster, Newcastle University
Cannabis has long been touted as containing chemicals that might work against cancer. A recent study suggested that two chemicals...
