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/ 11 months agoDo you hear what I see? How blindness changes how you process the sound of movement
Detecting and tracking motion is key to survival. The ability to extract auditory information from a noisy environment changes when your...
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/ 11 months agoWhy are some black holes bigger than others? An astronomer explains how these celestial vacuums grow
Pictures of black holes have a white outline around them when photographed, due to one of black holes’ unique and key...
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/ 11 months agoTeaching positive psychology skills at school may be one way to help student mental health and happiness
Positive psychology focuses on science-based ideas about how to increase your happiness and live a satisfying life. Studies are following how...
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/ 11 months agoMore vulnerable people live in Philadelphia neighborhoods that are less green and get hotter
An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable...
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/ 11 months agoAfter 50 years of global effort to abolish torture, much work remains
More than three-quarters of the world’s nations engage in torture, which is notoriously difficult to study because it often occurs in...
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/ 11 months agoA bottle of scotch recently sold for $2.7 million – what’s behind such outrageous prices?
The history of whiskey is one of perception, not necessarily quality.
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/ 11 months agoStudents could get more sleep and learn better if school started a little later
Most teens aren’t getting enough sleep, leading to poorer academic performance. Early school start times combined with natural changes in hormones...
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/ 11 months agoPaying people to replant tropical forests − and letting them harvest the timber − can pay off for climate, justice and environment
It might seem counterintuitive to suggest timber harvesting when the goal is to restore forests, but that gives landholders the economic...
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/ 11 months ago100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a U.S. university – part of the terror group’s crusade against American Catholics
Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and...
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/ 11 months agoRacism produces subtle brain changes that lead to increased disease risk in Black populations
Racial threats and slights take a toll on health, but the continual invalidation and questioning of whether those so-called microaggressions exist...
