With up to ten years in prison at stake, will Wanda rat Fred out? Welcome to game theory: looking at human interactions ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Pregnancy has long been framed as an evolutionary tug-of-war. The fetus presses for resources, while the mother mounts defenses to limit invasive placentation. A new study in PNAS challenges that view ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic ...

Kyle McCord’s first taste of tackle football came in his Mount Laurel backyard at a young age. A really young age. “I was four or five years old in the backyard playing football against my older ...

The growing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in applications is rapidly changing everyday life, underscoring the need to understand its social intelligence. A new AI study examines the social ...

When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it's easy to conclude that parents who don't vaccinate their children are ...

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Build A Rocket Boy has released a new trailer and screenshots for single-player action adventure game MindsEye, as well as detailed the title’s Game Creation Tools and planned constant stream of new ...

Have you ever noticed that on shows like “Cops,” the first thing officers do when arresting two suspects is separate them, putting them in different police cruisers or interview rooms? There’s a ...