All of statistics and much of science depends on probability—an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure ...

Infants who experienced rationing had a meaningfully lower risk of diabetes and hypertension decades later ...

Critics offer many arguments against raising octopuses for food, including possible releases of waste, antibiotics or ...

Rachel Blaser is a professor of neuroscience, cognition and behavior at the University of San Diego. Are Octopuses Too Smart to Be Farmed? Learn and share the most exciting discoveries, innovations ...

Exactly what is the effect of the opinions of others on our own? In other words, how strong is the urge toward social conformity? The question is approached by means of some unusual experiments ...