What role has aggression played in human evolution? Can scientists predict who might be more aggressive? And how might increased aggressiveness be linked to overall fitness? >>Read More

Participants given more powerful roles in two experiments attributed fewer uniquely human traits—characteristics that distinguish people from other animals—to their peers who were given less powerful roles. >>Read More

A growing body of experimental research is finding evidence suggesting that, to some degree, political inclinations and ideological leanings may be tied to innate factors like a person’s biology, physiology and genetics. >>Read More

What if there was a theory that could help solve humanity's largest problems such as poverty, starvation, global warming and peace. Would you believe it? >>Read More

U.S. Senators, listen up here. According to Professor Tom Seeley, an entomologist at Cornell University, a hive will send a few hundred "scouts" into a back yard, or into the woods, to find a good nest site. If a particular scout thinks that an elm tree — that one over there — is the best place to build a hive, she will say so, by dancing. Her dance will tell the other bees where to find that special tree >>Read More

Current research suggests that having a particular political view influences your brain and vice versa. >>Read More

Well, it looks like we are in for another round of cheap shots fired at the National Science Foundation (NSF). A week ago House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called to eliminate federal funding for social science. >>Read More