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Core Thinking Error Underlies Belief in Creationism and Conspiracy Theories

Researchers report teleological thinking, a single and powerful cognitive bias which entails the perception of final causes or an overriding purpose in natural events, is linked to two seemingly unconnected beliefs; conspiracy theories and creationism. Read More

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Is It Rational to Trust Your Gut Feelings?

Researchers report intuition is the result of information processing in the brain that results in prediction based on previous experience. Read More

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How the Brain Biases Beliefs

Researchers report the interaction between two regions of the prefrontal cortex may underlie our motivation to cling to a desirable notion about the future. Read More

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Full Moon Not to Blame for Hospital Admissions

A new study illustrates how people can develop strong beliefs which do not align with reality. Read More

Removing the novel coronavirus from the water cycle

Lucy had an ape-like brain

Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic’s advance

Removing the novel coronavirus from the water cycle

Lucy had an ape-like brain

Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic’s advance

Common vitamin combined with chemotherapy helps immune cells attack glioblastoma

Drugs considered for Coronavirus can raise risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms

How T. gondii infection causes seizures, and psychiatric illness for some

Mice make different facial expressions based on emotion

Experimental AI tool predicts which COVID-19 patients develop respiratory disease

Machine learning helps doctors diagnose severity of brain tumors

New Study Uses Robots to Uncover the Connections Between the Human Mind and Walking Control

COVID-19 should be wake-up call for robotics research

Stress thwarts ability to plan ahead by disrupting how we use memory

Mice make different facial expressions based on emotion

How T. gondii infection causes seizures, and psychiatric illness for some

Loss of smell and taste is strongest predictor of early COVID-19 infection

Trial drug may block early stages of COVID-19, human cell study shows

Common vitamin combined with chemotherapy helps immune cells attack glioblastoma

COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in first peer-reviewed research

cognitive bias

Core Thinking Error Underlies Belief in Creationism and Conspiracy Theories

Is It Rational to Trust Your Gut Feelings?

How the Brain Biases Beliefs

Full Moon Not to Blame for Hospital Admissions

Removing the novel coronavirus from the water cycle

Lucy had an ape-like brain

Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic’s advance

World’s biggest study of left-handedness

How important is speech in transmitting coronavirus?

COVID-19 found in sputum and feces samples after pharyngeal swabs are negative

Loss of smell and taste is strongest predictor of early COVID-19 infection

Experimental AI tool predicts which COVID-19 patients develop respiratory disease

Spinal nerve healing enhanced by boost in cellular energy

Removing the novel coronavirus from the water cycle

Lucy had an ape-like brain

Wearing surgical masks in public could help slow COVID-19 pandemic’s advance

World’s biggest study of left-handedness