At least 900 people have died, and nearly 5,000 others are reported missing after a flash flood struck a mountainous area in Nepal and the Tibet region of China on Aug. 26. The working theory is that ...

The jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother who killed her three children, will decide if she can be held criminally responsible for the murders. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty ...

American workers' share of the economic pie has fallen to its lowest level since at least 1947, when the federal government began tracking the data, according to an analysis by Federal Reserve ...

Die Natur erklären wir, das Seelenleben verstehen wir [Nature we explain, but psychic life we understand] ― Wilhelm Dilthey, 1894 When I first started studying psychology, I noticed there were two ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions ...

The term “gaslighting” may feel like a buzzword, but the behavior itself is nothing new. Broadly, gaslighting is “responding to someone in a way that makes them doubt their own experience,” explains ...

For millennia, the concept of an omniscient God — a deity who knows every sparrow that falls, every thought that forms, and every star that burns across the vast expanse of the cosmos — has boggled ...

A new Yale School of Medicine (YSM) study has uncovered surprising new details about how our eyes process what we see. When we look at something, our visual system breaks down different aspects of the ...

Cells aren’t as passive as scientists once thought—they actively create internal currents to move proteins quickly and efficiently. These “cellular winds” push materials to the front of the cell, ...

The key to working at a place like Ars Technica is solid news judgment. I’m talking about the kind of news judgment that knows whether a pet peeve is merely a pet peeve or whether it is, instead, a ...

President Donald Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail. Ten days ...

We often think of ourselves as solid beings moving through empty space. We assume our brains and their contents are locked in the vault of our skulls, churning out thoughts that stay trapped inside ...