Research helps explain causes of seemingly irrational human decision-making - MINNEAPOLIS - Gamblers who think they have a “hot hand,” only to end up walking away with a loss, ma

Ten reporters have spent this summer at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism producing a series of in-depth multimedia reports on the elderly, depicting the complex dimensions of aging.

Humans and other animals use this circuitry to make basic decisions about things like food, discounting the involvement of a specific ’moral sense’ - Harvard researchers have found

If you’re on the moon, watch your step. The lunar surface has clifflike formations called scarps that, according to a team that includes Cornell scientists, may have formed recently - at least relative to the moon’s history.

AUSTIN, Texas — Moderate drinking, about one to two drinks per day, reduces mortality among older and middle-aged adults, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin.

Young children are natural psychologists, says Cornell cognitive psychologist Tamar Kushnir. By the time they’re in preschool, they already understand a lot about other people’s inner mental lives - their desires, preferences, beliefs and emotions.

AUSTIN, Texas — Independent bloggers represent the least trusted media type and are the most likely to be turned down for press pass requests, according to the first academic study to asses

Conquest is a man of contradictions: He has been called "a comic poet of genius" and "a love poet of considerable force" – but he made his mark as one of the first to expose the horrors of Stalinist communism.