Female baboons that form strong social bonds have longer-lived offspring. The need to maintain such relationships may be one of the factors that drove the...
Biologists have long struggled to explain why most creatures reproduce sexually when they could just clone themselves – now at last it's becoming clear not...
In the early '60s psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted his "obedience" experiments, showing that most people will do what an authority figure tells them to...
The notion of multiple intelligences is uplifting and politically satisfying. Unfortunately, evidence suggests it's wrong. While there are many other...
Individual monkeys perform consistently on different tests of intelligence - a hallmark of human IQ and, perhaps, an indication that human intellect has an...
Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the...
Scientists are using new tools and tactics in the race to discover novel antibiotics http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=squashing-superbugs...
Genes for mental illness are hard to pinpoint, and a new study suggests one gene variant that was thought to be associated with depression may not predict risk...
THE THIRD CULTURE HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky NEW SCIENTIST Top scientists predict the future of science By Amanda Gefter ...
Trapped in a Greenland glacier for 120,000 years, the revived bacteria raise the possibility that scientists could bring alien microbes on other, frozen...
Breastfed babies seem more likely to do well at high school and to go on to attend college than infants raised on a bottle, according to a new U.S. study ...
How having money can bolster self-esteem and diminish physical pain—and why economic stress can have the opposite effect http://www.newsweek.com/id/202012...
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