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Maria Konnikova says the field of psychology has something to learn from great works of fiction.

Children born under China’s One-Child Policy exhibit more negative personality traits in adulthood than those born prior.

Resource-limited countries are in desperate need of better diagnostic tests for life-threatening illnesses.

Reprogrammed stem cells are not attacked by the immune system, or are they?

Researchers uncover weekly and monthly rhythms of sodium retention and excretion in participants of space simulations.

Mouse mothers emit ultrasound vocalizations and odor cues to stimulate otherwise uninterested fathers to provide parental care to their pups.

People of all ages think that, despite having changed in the past, they will change very little in the future.

Animal dissections are not needed in education.

The release of non-native organisms into the environment by high school teachers should not be used as an argument to stop teaching by hands-on demonstration.

Despite decades of work, compounds in frog skins have failed to yield new antibiotics. Why?

Scientists propose a new model for how homosexuality develops, but observers say it will be difficult to test.

Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.