How is it that we are able--without any noticeable effort--to listen to a friend talk in a crowded café or...

Despite major brain differences, many species from spiders to humans can recognize and differentiate relative quantities. Adult primates, however, are...

We live in an unprecedented "age of information." Dieters have access to nutritional information, people at risk of genetic disease...

Look for the fault line in any modern conflict and it likely follows a familiar division between the opposing groups....

Many policies -- from medicine to terrorism -- depend on how the general public accepts and understands scientific evidence. People...

Studies have suggested that married people are healthier than those who are single, divorced or widowed. A new Carnegie Mellon...

At a glance, you can recognize a friend's face whether they are happy or sad or even if you haven't...

Using a new imaging technique, researchers have confirmed what scientists have always thought to be true: the structural connections in...

An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain "reads" or decodes a sentence...

Many consider the political memoir genre to be obsolete since they rarely reveal anything new or noteworthy. However, Carnegie Mellon...

Personal interactions on Facebook can have a major impact on a person's feelings of well-being and satisfaction with life just...

Ever see something that isn't really there? Could your mind be playing tricks on you? The "tricks" might be your...

A readability analysis of presidential candidate speeches by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) finds most candidates...

Over the past decade, mindfulness meditation has been shown to improve a broad range of health and disease outcomes, such...

From the Christian Crusades to the Paris attacks, countless conflicts and acts of violence have been claimed to be the...