Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians and pundits. And each finding sits within a ...

A team of psychologists at the University of London, has found that people typically greatly underestimate how much their hands weigh. Their study has been published in Current Biology. Prior research ...

A single bout of physical activity could fill the bloodstream with cancer-busting allies. In an experiment involving 32 breast cancer survivors, a 45-minute session of either resistance training or ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms. Burial is a critical factor in the preservation of most fossils, keeping scavengers away and preventing the disarticulation ...

One of the best-known strategies to prevent dune erosion is to introduce plants whose roots will help hold sand in place and stabilize the dune. But experiments conducted at Oregon State University ...