We need a new language to describe the reality that animals love, grieve, and fear.
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We need a new language to describe the reality that animals love, grieve, and fear.
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The public deserves honesty and respect. Scientists need to do a better job delivering, says Frederic Bertley, president of the COSI Science Center.
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Everyone is biased, she says; it's built into the way we experience the world. But that doesn't mean that we are slaves to our instincts.
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Some researchers are targeting artificial foods as a leading public health problem. As with so many dietary issues, though, the evidence tells a more nuanced tale.
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Rhetorical tricks and strategic deceptions are once again being used to skew science against marginalized groups.
By Corey S. Powell
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Airborne toxins can increase our risk for cognitive disability and disease. The science of exposomics is helping to identify effective responses.
By Sherry Baker
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Dunning, co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger effect, investigates the misinformation gap built into our brains: We don't know what we don't know.
By Corey S. Powell
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New research shows how environmental exposures accumulated throughout life could explain subtle cognitive deficits and profound neurological disease.
By Corey S. Powell
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There's often a vast chasm between people's moral aspirations and the things they need to do just to survive in a brutal world.
By Corey S. Powell
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Plante, a psychologist and ethicist, weighs in the pros and cons of chatbots. Can AI fill in for a shortage of human therapists?
By Corey S. Powell
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A little bit of knowledge might make you think you have expert status in areas from medicine to mountain climbing —when that happens, look to the Dunning-Kruger effect, and take extra care.
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The powerful link between pollution and Alzheimer's disease
By Ben Rein
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How anti-Black bias plays out in the first-person shooter task
By Ben Rein
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We all have bias embedded in our brains, but there are ways we can move past it. New findings from psychology show us how.
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