The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

Can automated tools help researchers catch problems before their work is published? In this talk from the King’s Open Research Summer School 2026, Professor Daniël Lakens (Eindhoven University of…

Tools that perform automated checks have the potential to assist researchers. Just as a spelling check can warn users for possible misspellings, automated checks of statistical reporting, data and…

The Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) Packet https://pairr.short.gy/packet Thanks for your interest in PAIRR! We invite you to consider the materials shared in the tabs of this document and adapt...

At a recent economics conference there was a long discussion on preregistration where we heard questions and comments from ~20 different people at varying levels of seniority.

We stopped calling it "women's work" — but we never stopped making it women's work.

Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?

I had one of those fabled latchkey upbringings of the 1970s and 1980s where the street did most of the parenting. We roamed freely, unsupervised and carefree, …

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Join our No Kings! rally on the historic Lexington Battle Green sponsored by Lexington Alarm! and Indivisible LAB. The “It Started Here” rally will feature speakers, local music, and information ab...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

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How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...