Around 1% of the global population has a Ph.D. It's the highest academic qualification, the result of years spent on original ...

Introduction In cluster randomised trials (CRT), groups (rather than individuals) are randomised to intervention and control conditions. Since the publication of the Ottawa Statement on the Ethical ...

Most people barely give their toes a second thought - unless one of them is stubbed against a piece of furniture. Yet the ...

A multi-year study of the reliability of published social & behavioral science research has found that only about half of ...

A new UAB study published in Nature Communications reveals how the eye creates sharp vision, showing that individual ...

After decades of research on sleep and relationships, the evidence is overwhelming: For most adults, sleep is fundamentally a ...

The taste and texture profile of protein shakes could be improved by tweaking the way whey protein is made, new research has found. An ongoing collaboration among the University of Reading, ...

Even smart consumers fall for fake content; the psychological forces behind it and how to think critically in a world of AI-driven misinformation.

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

Qualitative research is a unique and complex approach to understanding the phenomenon. Unlike quantitative research, which relies on numbers and statistics to understand facts through reductionist ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

The Kadena Air Base game room in Japan features more than 80 entertainment slot machines. (Senior Airman Omari Bernard/U.S. Air Force) Gambling addiction is now a topic that researchers can study ...