Emphasizing the strengths of socio-economically disadvantaged students boosts their self-confidence and academic performance, leading to better grades

For the first time, a study found that students are actually very bored during exams, and boredom has a negative effect on results

Researchers have conducted experiments showing that, contrary to popular intuition, people perceive emotions and intentions when viewing art even when they know the work was generated by a computer…

Dogs’ brains perceive faces and bodies just like human brains do, however for dogs’ brain there are also differences in activation in areas responsible for processing smells

Loneliness, or lack of social contact, physically drains people of energy

Parasitic worms reveal new insights into the evolution of sex and sex chromosomes

Too much self-confidence can endanger health. Older people who overestimate their health go to the doctor less often

Synthesis of a single layer of the high temperature vdW-layered β-CuI material at ambient conditions is made possible by using graphene encapsulation

Scientists have quantified a dramatic biodiversity collapse of up to 95 per cent of native species in the Eastern Mediterranean

How extremophilic bacteria survive in space for one year

The Austrian Academy of Science, the University of Vienna, and the University of Science and Technology of China have experimentally demonstrated teleporting complex high-dimensional quantum states.

Antidepressant treatment, not only depression per se, can lead to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy

One step closer to complex quantum teleportation with novel complex quantum entanglement generated in the laboratory for the first time

Cognitive biologists tested cockatoos in a task to choose the correct "key" to insert into a "keyhole" in a box

When music makes male faces more attractive (original article: Misattribution of musical arousal increases sexual attraction towards opposite-sex faces in females)

A research team (Zeilinger et al) has created corkscrews of light which transmitted data at 100 terabits/second over 143 km in real world conditions

The eye is listening: When people are listening to music, their emotional reactions to the music are reflected in changes in their pupil size

Azure-winged magpies take any opportunity to provide food to their group members, even without receiving any reward themselves

In an international collaboration, researchers have now discovered that Einstein’s theory of general relativity can explain yet another puzzling phenomenon: the transition from quantum behavior to our classical…

More left-handed men are born during the winter: Men born in November to January are more likely to be left-handed

Yawning to cool the brain: Common belief is that yawning helps to increase the oxygen supply