Educational psychology professor Kaylin Ratner found in a study of more than 200 adolescents that feeling a sense of purpose had a significa...

Why do some elderly people keep their cognitive ability much longer than others? Scientists still have much to learn. Photo Credit:  Alexand...

Learning online: 'We find a substantial overall learning deficit…which arose early in the pandemic and persists over time… The pooled ef...

Covid 19 Conspiracy Initiated Image Credit:  Dr StClaire In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter hig...

Two people speaking, sat at a table  Photo Credit: Charles Deluvio If you’ve told an adult friend or family member that they should not take...

Elongation, a crucial step in the translation process of protein synthesis, gets disrupted by amino acid sequences with an abundance of N-te...

Over the decades, many independent research studies have found that females on average score higher than males on theory of mind tests Photo...

The study found that robots aren’t replacing humans at the rate most people think, but people are prone to exaggerate the rate of robot take...

Image Credit: Thomas Ulrich The question of whether the rise in usage of digital media is contributing to the erosion of democracy is a sour...

After two weeks of camp, the participants’ level of altruism had increased significantly, while that of the other children had decreased. Ph...

Image by Pexels Infants whose mothers test positive for COVID-19 tend to develop less-severe symptoms than their parents, if they become inf...

The largest supermoon appearance of 2022, identified as the Buck Moon, rises above the mountain line in Morgantown, July 13. New WVU sociolo...

The birth rate increase in 2021 was driven largely by women having their first births and women with a college education who may have been m...

Wenlong Yuan is the Stu Clark Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UM Credit: University of Manitoba The pandemic has affected many a...

Even though they often enhance happiness, acts of kindness such as giving a friend a ride or bringing food for a sick family member can be s...

LGBTQ people may face unique barriers to health care, according to a new study by Zachary Ramsey, doctoral candidate in the WVU School of Pu...

People who engage with research critically on Twitter may contribute to valuable conservations about science, new research suggests. Illustr...

Photo by Curtis Simmons, Flickr: simmons_tx Throughout history, mass gatherings such as collective rituals, ceremonies, and pilgrimages have...

Roberto Vargas Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have explored the regions of the brain where concrete and abstract concepts materia...

New research presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, the Netherlands (4-7 May), has found that many parents atten...