Army researchers have developed for the first time an analytic model to show how groups of people influence individual behavior. Technically speaking, this had never been done before: No one... Read more
Columns of workers penetrate the forest, furiously gathering as much food and supplies as they can. They are a massive army that living things know to avoid, and that few natural obstacles c... Read more
Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have figured out how to turn bacterial molecules into potential drug molecules. Yan-Yeung Luk, associate professor of chemistry, and his research... Read more
eFishery, a company based in Indonesia and spearheaded by TED Prize director Amy Novogratz, hopes to alleviate waste problems that result from both over and underfeeding of fish with the dev... Read more
In 1961, with memories of Holocaust atrocities and the prosecution of Nazi officials at Nuremburg still fresh, psychologist Stanley Milgram undertook a series of now infamous experiments on... Read more
Noninvasive brain scans, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, have led to basic science discoveries about the human brain, but they’ve had only limited impacts on people... Read more
U STUDY CONNECTS TRAITS OF MINDFULNESS TO EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING A new study from the University of Utah shows that individuals who describe themselves as being more mindful have more stable e... Read more
Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral test... Read more