The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Credit: HALUSTD from Popspixel via Canva When Dorothy Bishop was asked to review a paper for a small neuroscience journal in August, she could tell from the abstract the authors had used a dataset …

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Beyond egalitarian societies: Egalitarianism as a human universal - Volume 49

Hugging before stressful events may be an ancient way of building trust, say scientists studying apes.

In daily life, we often draw inferences about novel associations from prior experiences. This ability, associative inference, is thought to be a ke...

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Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.

In this population-based cohort study, Glynn et al. tested the contribution of childhood unpredictability to mental health outcomes in ~30,000 participants, examining the relative and additive roles o...

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

How does complex cognition emerge from simpler underlying processes? We show that two components are sufficient: infant-like curiosity and brain-like biophysical constraints jointly drive the emergenc...

Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and...