According to recent research, humans may have a new touch-related sense that allows us to detect buried objects without ...

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

Common sense might not be so common after all, new research has found. What one person might consider common sense might be very different to someone else, a new study in the journal Proceedings of ...

For over a decade I’ve been lugging around on my laptop a presentation describing the contrasting values and vocabulary honored by liberals and conservatives. Among those differences are conservatives ...

A few years ago, a computer scientist named Yejin Choi gave a presentation at an artificial-intelligence conference in New Orleans. On a screen, she projected a frame from a newscast where two anchors ...

Once upon a time, community was defined by where you lived, worshipped and worked. Then over the years, as social scientist Robert Putman documented in his seminal book, Bowling Alone, the sense of ...