Dogs and their owners: A chemical bond

Why do we love dogs so much? The answer may arise from the reason they love us so much. It's all in the hormones. Honest! More »

Trampling culture, destroying history

Deliberate destruction and looting threaten antiquities. Is this the rule or the exception through history? Why destroy culture? More »

Vaccines. Gene-modified food. Climate. We're awash in science skeptics. Is this an anti-science mood, or something more complicated? More »

If you rate the most common words in 10 major languages, you’ll see people tend to use positive words — around the globe. Surprised? More »

In the aftermath of the video-taped death of Eric Garner at the hands of the NYPD, we look at the effect of cameras on policing. More »

Some seed corn is covered by 30 patents. Three firms dominate corn and soybean seed producers, and patents are moving faster into More »

We asked how to catch a liar. Liars challenge our law, economy and society. If you want to catch a liar, you might as well flip a coin. More »

How about sadly disgusted? Fearfully angry or fearfully surprised? We’re happily surprised to see that these categories seem burned More »

Critics carp about college entrance exams and point to data showing that high-school grades better predict success. How do the More »

Whether in a U.S. shopping mall or Indian farm country, cognitive load — the burden of thinking about getting enough money to pay the More »

A massive study looks at how ideas pass through social networks in 43 Indian villages, then offers a new definition of “well More »

We’ll never know how implicit bias affected George Zimmerman in the minutes before he shot Trayvon Martin. It’s easy enough to More »

Listing your Facebook status as “organ donor” seems to induce friends to sign up at organ registries. A new study finds a strong quick More »

If you teach a group of monkeys that blue corn tastes yucky, they switch to pink corn. What happens when a monkey raised to detest pink More »

After an asteroid strikes, meteorite hunters go to work. What are the rules when you are looking for a hunk of outer space! More »