The vast majority of experimental work in behavioral and biomedical science involves group comparison—in the simplest case, an experimental and a control group. Average data are compared and the ...

In recent debates about government funding, certain quirky-sounding research projects — like studying shrimp on treadmills — have grabbed headlines and become easy targets for criticism. Politicians ...

Robert Hazen and Michael Wong discuss their bold proposal for a new law of nature, centered around the idea that information is as fundamental to the cosmos as mass, energy or charge. Most organic ...

For nearly 60 years, the “moving sofa problem,” a long-standing mathematical puzzle, remained unsolved. Last year, a Korean ...