Making scents of it. MIAD Communication Design, CC BY-NC-SA By Simon Cotton, University of Birmingham There are two types of perfume in the world: the fast turnover celebrity perfumes, designed to…

A growing number of scholars are using social media data to write articles about both online and offline human behavior - it's cheap, it's as accurate as surveys if properly controlled, and no one…

Our culture tells women there's something wrong with them if they don't orgasm. Gustavo Gomes/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Sally Hunter, University of New England A recently published Italian study suggesting…

Yesterday I worked from scratch at a problem which certainly others have already solved in the past. I have mixed feelings with such situations: on one side I hate to reinvent the wheel, especially…

Shifting descriptions of schizophrenia. Shutterstock By Huw Green, City University of New York In an attempt to move away from the traditional language used to describe psychosis and schizophrenia,…

There’s really a more productive way to spend Black Friday instead of going berserk and storming the stores. A really huge crowd of 90,000 people capable of invading every bigger mall during the…

There is such a thing as 'too precise' when it comes to numbers. So what's appropriate? Erik Olsson, CC BY-NC-SA By Jonathan Borwein (Jon), University of Newcastle and David H. Bailey, University of…

How is this for the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage: A new tiny nanopore includes all the components of a battery though it is just is a tiny hole in a ceramic sheet that holds an…

This has as much in common with actual paleolithic culture as the paleolithic diet does. Flickr/George , CC BY-NC-SA By Darren Curnoe We still hear and read a lot about how a diet based on what our…

Kelly Abbott/Flickr, CC BY-NC By Tim Trudgian, Australian National University Consider a standard pizza box containing a standard circular pizza. How much more would you be willing to pay for a…