The US and other countries have a legal definition of citizenship, yet human psychology and identity politics result in ...

A classic puzzle conundrum goes like this: You’re in a room with two ropes and a box of matches. Each rope takes exactly an hour to burn all the way across, but it might burn faster through some ...

But there’s another consequence of meditation that people do not always anticipate. Despite the ways in which wellness movements have emphasized a highly individualistic way of thinking about ...

Scientists warn against reading too much into a small experiment about ChatGPT and brain activity that is receiving a lot of buzz ...

A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research suggests ...

The brain weighs factors based on their importance to oneself and one’s social world as part of a complex calculation that shapes behavior ...

Lauren J. Young is an associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American. She has edited and written stories that tackle a wide range of subjects, including the COVID pandemic ...

The most anticipated particle physics result of recent years is here—but the real news came one week before: the “muon g–2 anomaly” might have never existed ...

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Psychologists have been interested in the darker side of human personality for decades. The so-called dark triad of Machiavellianism, narcissism and sociopathy have attracted intense scrutiny. People ...