James Devitt

When researchers examined human postmortem brain tissue—some from typical brains and others from those with an autism diagnosis—they found evidence of changes to blood vessels in autistic brains.

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

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 the neck stand up.

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

The more committed we are to achieving a goal the more likely we are to assume others have exactly the same objective