Pandemic policy must include defining and measuring what we mean by mild infection.

Computers and phones have become the go-to note-taking method for many. But your brain benefits from an old-fashioned pen and paper.

If you were to play your favourite song right now, I imagine you’d have little difficulty clapping along with the beat. Our appreciation of beat allows us to clap, dance, march and sway in time with a piece of music — or just with each other. As the authors of a new paper published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General point out, these behaviours occur spontaneously across human cultures. But while moving to a beat seems effortless, it involves all kinds of perceptual processes.

Green light therapy resulted in about a 60% reduction in the pain intensity of the headache phase and the number of days per month people experienced migraines.

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted—all to learn more about the past.

Think spending time with your kids and spouse is the key to your happiness? You may actually be happier getting together with your friends, said SMU psychology professor Nathan Hudson. Hudson's research finds that people report higher levels of well-being while hanging with their friends than they do with their romantic partner or children. In fact, being around romantic partners predicted the least amount of happiness among these three groups, reveals a study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

A cold-war-era corporation targeted voters and presaged many of today’s big-data controversies.

Australia's rainforest-dwelling stinging trees are notoriously painful, and Queensland researchers say they now know why.

A simple trick can reveal whether your face mask offers sufficient protection: Try blowing out a candle while wearing it. A good mask should prevent you from extinguishing the flame.

Researchers say loss of 1.9m square kilometres of intact ecosystems will have ‘profound implications’ for biodiversity

One explanation for why people engage in frightening fictional experiences is that these experiences can act as simulations of actual experiences from…

There’s a lot of discussion about artificial consciousness and the possibility of machines gaining self-awareness once they become sufficiently complex. But isn’t the most complex system in existence the internet? Is it possible that the internet could become conscious, and if it were already, how would we know? Also, why aren’t more people talking about this?

History teaches that social tension accumulated over an epidemic can lead to significant episodes of rebellion, according to a study.

A study exploring women’s responses to compliments in the context of online dating has found that women are rated less favorably when they agree with ...

Invaders, pirates, warriors—the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way across Europe and beyond.

The laws that govern the use of tear gas are downright illogical, argue human rights advocates.

In a recent study, scientists could tell if people were intoxicated just by looking at their phones’ motion data.

Experimentalists in the field of prebiotic chemistry strive to re-enact what may have happened when life arose from inanimate material. How often human intervention was needed to obtain a specific result in their studies is worth reporting.

The plague of unsolicited automated phone calls isn't abating. By studying robocalls, scholars at the Robocall Observatory are developing ways to help shut them down.

An Australian telescope examined a huge patch of the sky for signs of life. It came up empty-handed.