A clearer look at critical materials, thanks to refrigerator magnets

With an advanced technology known as angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), scientists are able to map out a material's electron energy-momentum relationship, which encodes the material's ...
Scientific American

Want to Make Your Resolution Stick This Year? Behavioral Science Has the Answers

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...
Forbes

The Top Universities For R&D Spending In The Social/Behavioral Sciences

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Total R&D expenditures at American universities topped $117.5 billion in FY 2024. Of that ...
The Business Journals

Daemen University to add first Ph.D. program

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Daemen University in Amherst ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Unique program uses behavioral science to help train police

In August 2021, University of Chicago Prof. Oeindrila Dube began reviewing data on a first-of-its-kind police training program she helped design and implement. Its objective: improve Chicago police ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security

This project carried out a decadal survey on the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) in areas relevant to national security. The survey identified opportunities that are poised to contribute ...
Ars Technica

Many genes associated with dog behavior influence human personalities, too

Many dog breeds are noted for their personalities and behavioral traits, from the distinctive vocalizations of huskies to the herding of border collies. People have worked to identify the genes ...
The Conversation

The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist

Sunita Sah does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
New Atlas

Self-sabotage: The science behind knowingly engaging in harmful behavior

Why do some people keep making the same harmful choices, even when they know better? A global study has revealed three distinct decision-making types and why punishment doesn’t work for everyone. When ...
Forbes

The Hidden Factor Behind Successful AI Adoption: Behavioral Science

In 2025, the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has gone enterprise-wide, surging to reshape industries and redefine how businesses operate. According to McKinsey, 63% of organizations report ...
New Atlas

Researchers find 43,000-year-old human fingerprint, from a Neanderthal

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...