Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that used geometry ...

Until recently I thought I was rather tall. Well, maybe not tall, but certainly not short. I don’t have anything against short people. It’s just that I didn’t realize that I am a short person. I’ve ...

How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...

image: Research by Brittany Solomon found that, regardless of how people personally view another person, they also are aware of how that person sees themselves, as well as how they are generally ...

Many policies -- from medicine to terrorism -- depend on how the general public accepts and understands scientific evidence. People view different branches of sciences as having different amounts of ...

American psychologist Calvin S. Hall established the open field test (OFT) in 1932 to assess animal emotionality. 1 The OFT has evolved since then with modern technology, and its capacity to assess ...

Some say America is finally entering a post-racial age, one in which people of all races have equal opportunities. But scientific studies show racial prejudices persist. Researchers have found some ...

Scientists from the University of Nottingham have reported that adding an ingredient that induces the sensation of cooling could boost the perception of fruit flavours, fundamental research that could ...