President Donald Trump wasted no time in responding to the deaths of two U.S. citizens this month during protests against an ...

The most recent Global Burden of Disease Study showed that 44% of global cancer deaths could be attributed to modifiable risk factors. However, the estimate did not include infectious disease, which ...

Minority rule kicks in when the minority’s preferred option is acceptable to the majority, but not vice versa. Systems tend to gravitate to the stricter standard.

For those of you solidly in the haters’ camp, I should explain the lovers’ case, which is that mechanically, many markets involve one-off deals between strangers and encourage cultural traits that ...

Experts and users agree that public space is not just a physical construct, but a cultural one, shaped by consideration for ...

The hopeful truth is that these same common spaces can also be where people relearn patience, curiosity, and care for strangers. But that will take more than new rules or security cameras. It will ...

For the first time, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC)—Shanghai' s flagship AI forum and one of the world' s most influential AI events—staged its year-end summit in Hong Kong, ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of ...

An interdisciplinary team of Boston College researchers to explore how social norms can be leveraged to promote virtuous behavior Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Liane Young, whose research ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and cumulative.

A brisk look at the iconic U.S. brands, from jeans, jets, tech, and credit, that helped define how America lives, buys and travels.