Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits ...

Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed ...

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A new era in science is emerging, one that returns the study of the mind to the center of the conversation for psychology, ...

A night under the stars can reset your body's clock, reduce stress, and more—but it might not benefit everyone.

A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New ...

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

Wisley's Wellbeing Garden has found that simply prompting people to actively notice natural features, such as birdsong, plant ...

America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more ...

Inspired by nature, researchers have developed a new framework using a geometric property called \"curvity\" to improve robot ...

The relationship between music, science and maths are deeply entwined. We could all benefit from learning more about it.

How do humans manage to adapt to completely new situations and why do machines so often struggle with this? This central question is explored by researchers from cognitive science and artificial ...