Looking for a romantic relationship? You know how important that first date can be. What makes us attracted to some people, and not others.

The study into the science of boredom has uncovered the jobs, characteristics, and hobbies that are considered a stereotypical snooze.

New research from Trinity College has found further evidence of a relationship between online engagement and mental wellbeing in teenagers.

Millions of consumers and patients around the world will be heartened by the results of the latest study on cannabis and driving.

Examining trends in the popularity of baby names and dog breeds can be a proxy for understanding ecological and evolutionary change.

Before they enter a classroom, people learn to identify commonplace objects like a “dog” and a “chair” just by encountering them in life.

Horses, pigs and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives and humans.

When it comes to attitudes and behaviors between American political parties, the conventional wisdom is that hate is stronger than love.

Researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify the basic needs of users from the text and images they share on social networks.

Researchers trained their robot chef to assess the saltiness of a dish at different stages of the chewing process, imitating humans.

People don’t want science anywhere near their delicious chocolate chip cookies. But they’re happy to have science create body wash.

The most boring person in the world has been discovered and it is a religious data entry worker who likes watching TV and lives in a town.

The paper challenges new theories that the earliest human inhabitants of North America arrived before the migration of people from Asia.

Scientists can make some pretty accurate forecasts about the future, but predicting what the Earth will be like in 500 years is difficult.

How we prepare and eat our food can directly correlate to our true personalities, according to new national research.

Are people more likely to feel empathy for animals than humans? A new Penn State study suggests the answer may be complicated.

If you find yourself shouting and gesticulating wildly if others can’t hear you during a Zoom call, you’re not alone.

Staunchly conservative Fox News viewers who spent a month tuning in to CNN instead reported a broad shift in their political opinions

The algorithm determines someone's mental state by extracting and analyzing 38 data points from their public Twitter profile.

A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior.