How much would someone have to pay you to stop using Facebook for a month: $5? $10? $100? That’s the question Erik Brynjolfsson and his fellow researchers posed to nearly 40,000 Facebook users from 13 countries.
Jan 20, 2024
How deeply someone can be hypnotized — known as hypnotizability — appears to be a stable trait that changes little throughout adulthood, much like personality and IQ.
Jan 4, 2024
Dominik Rothenhaeusler grew up in Oberzell, Germany, a quaint town of roughly 2,500 people along the Schussen River.
Nov 16, 2023
Scientists affiliated with the Knight Initiative for Brain Resilience at Wu Tsai Neuro have discovered a surprising connection between brain cells involved in…
Nov 1, 2023
More extreme heat and bigger populations will dramatically change energy use in American cities by 2050, driving up the amount of electricity used to cool…
Oct 20, 2023
Some cleansers and moisturizers have distinct effects on the skin, with cleansers often making the skin feel "tight," while moisturizers leave it feeling "soft.
Sep 26, 2023
It seems intuitive that forests would provide better habitat for forest-dwelling wildlife than farms.
Sep 5, 2023
For centuries, Indigenous people used cultural and controlled burns to nurture healthy ecosystems.
Aug 28, 2023
Clouds are a lot cooler than you might think. In fact, scientists might say they’re super cool because they’re made up of millions of supercooled water droplets, droplets that have been cooled below the freezing point but haven't yet turned into ice.
Aug 28, 2023
The summertime barbecue – an American tradition synonymous with celebrating freedom – may be tainted by a decidedly unfree market.
Aug 21, 2023
Most of us who’ve reached middle age have noticed a slowing in memory and cognition, but scientists don’t have a clear picture of the molecular changes that take place in the brain to cause it.
Aug 18, 2023
In Jordan, a shadow market for drinking water is booming. For every gallon of water that’s pumped and trucked to consumers from the country’s officially licensed wells, 10 gallons are sold illegally, according to new research published Aug.
Aug 16, 2023
Astrophysicists can use measurements of the cosmic microwave background, radiation formed 380,000 years after the Big Bang, to understand what the universe was like in its infancy.
Aug 16, 2023
With the rise of online shopping, digital payments, and cryptocurrency, the role of cash in the U.S.
Jul 24, 2023
