Our bodies can be quite sensitive to changes in daylight because we rely on it to regulate our circadian rhythms and our sleep-wake patterns.And because our internal body clocks don't keep a perfect ...

Under an APS pilot program, scientists and graduate students press lawmakers to fight research funding cuts.

Imagine jumping out of an aeroplane and feeling nothing. No rush of adrenaline, or quickening heartbeat...."In that situation, SM and other individuals with amygdala damage will go nose-to-nose with ...

New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that ...

Three researchers will receive support this year from the Sabbatical Fund Fellowship from the James McKeen Cattell Fund.

Researchers are designing studies that better represent how memory works in daily life, leading to discoveries about how to intervene when it falters.

"If APS is to thrive, we must come to terms with each of these issues," writes APS President James W. Pennebaker in his second presidential column.

These are things people might say when they claim to be setting boundaries:“You really have to stop coming over unannounced.”“Don’t talk to me that way.”“If you can’t honor my needs, I’m cutting off ...

When I play, I feel the vibration in my heart,” the cellist Yumi Kendall told Dacher Keltner, a psychologist who studies awe. “It is beyond language. Beyond thought. Beyond religion. It is like a ...

Elika Bergelson, a Harvard University language scientist who was not part of the new study, says human infants “mostly rely on how things look. But by 14 months they can also use role or function—for ...

At the close of the fall semester, professors across the country will grade their students. Based on recent trends, those grades will be higher than ever. Around the same time, students will hand ...