When researchers examined human postmortem brain tissue—some from typical brains and others from those with an autism diagnosis—they ...

New evidence supports Noam Chomsky’s decades-old theory that we have internal grammar that helps us process language, even ...

Putting schools on probation for sub-par test scores spurs transfer patterns linked to household income, report sociologists.

Magnetic waves are known as solitons—for solitary waves—and were theorized to occur in magnets in the 1970s.

There is nothing quite like the sound of a scream to make the hair on the back of ...

A whopping two-thirds of human conversation is gossip about others—a rate that holds true, anthropologists say, for radically ...

MicroRNA can serve as a "decoder ring" for understanding complex biological processes, report chemists. The study in Proceedings ...

The more committed we are to achieving a goal the more likely we are to assume others have ...

Even when we need to focus on just one dimension of an object—such as color, texture, or luminance—our ...

The Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our galaxy's disc may have a direct and significant ...

If you walk for exercise, researchers say you’ll walk faster if you focus on a specific target in ...

Our brains are able to judge the trustworthiness of a face even when we cannot consciously see it.

A new method uses DNA origami to turn one-dimensional nanomaterials into two dimensions.

Kindergartners and first graders from low-income families showed gains in math and reading after taking part in a ...

Inexpensive computers, cell phones, and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be a step ...

The capacity of our working memory is better explained by the quality of memories we can store than ...