A mourner holds up a wooden Star of David with a sign reading “Jewish Lives Matter” as people gather around floral tributes ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

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A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

Forget everything you knew about practice making perfect. New research shows your brain is actually wired to learn faster ...

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Dr. Goddard is a professor of political science at Wellesley College. Dr. Newman is a professor of international affairs at Georgetown. Negotiations around President Trump’s demand for U.S. ownership ...

Humans can produce endlessly new sentences, but the mental structures that make this possible may be simpler than long assumed. New research suggests that language relies not only on complex ...

Researchers believe other species could help explain the mysterious origins of our consciousness. One new paper argues that consciousness evolved in distinct waves from environmental pressures, like a ...

Understanding how people learn is central to effective training and professional development. Among the many frameworks is the VAK styles model, which categorizes learning preferences into three ...

Chris Evans is returning as Steve Rogers in Avengers: Doomsday, and inevitably, there are some huge questions to ask about the immediate future of Captain America. Despite being less than a year away, ...