Science & Medicine

Twins tend to live longer than people who aren’t twins, and identical twins live even longer, according to a new study. Researchers say the findings may point to the health benefits of social...

Suicides don’t get as much media attention as homicides, but they account for nearly two thirds of the 33,000 gun fatalities every year. Research suggests that many gun suicide deaths may be preventable:...

Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research shows. This holds true even if the people in question aren’t actually of...

I am from time to time, a little cynical about science, research and particularly academia (it’s the bureaucracy that causes it). Indeed, you might notice the subtitle of this blog highlights that it’s all...

Frank T. McAndrew, Knox College In the 1990s, a psychologist named Martin Seligman led the positive psychology movement, which placed the study of human happiness squarely at the center of psychology...

Humor me for a moment. There is a pi (π) that some may be less aware of - the theoretical formalism of pi calculus in process algebra. Thank Robin Milner, a part of the brain trust with Joachim Parrow, David...

By 2085, only eight Northern Hemisphere cities outside of western Europe are likely to be cool enough to host the summer Olympic games, predict researchers. San Francisco would be one of just three North...