From loud restroom conversations to messy sinks, these eight habits expose unrefined behavior immediately, especially to people from higher social circles. Public restrooms reveal more about people ...

The OODA loop—for observe, orient, decide, act—is a framework to understand decision-making in adversarial situations. We apply the same framework to artificial intelligence agents, who have to make ...

"Come to find out, they put in my chart that I have 'drug-seeking tendencies' and I was labeled with that for every subsequent visit. You get to know a lot about your body, what works (and doesn’t ...

Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare.

A study found industrialized communities east of Houston may be at elevated risk of developing several types of cancer. But state epidemiologists have refused to release cancer data at the ...

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Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This spring, scientists at the Environmental ...

After years of writing, studying psychology, and geeking out on language research, I’ve noticed something quietly reliable: people who think clearly tend to speak and write clearly, and the ...

Prussic Acid — Well, we are in the frost season. Our average first frost is Oct. 15, and that day’s coming very fast. There have been some freezing temperatures recorded ...