Fingers and toes become wrinkled after being in water for long periods, and now new research explains why. The transformed skin improves our grip on wet objects.Aside from answering why we get the wrinklies after bathing, swimming and hand-washing dishes,
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Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagi
Continue reading >>American women are now dominating careers that once went only to men and more women are graduating from U.S. colleges.
Continue reading >>Science recently confirmed what men have known for centuries: talking to a pretty woman makes men temporarily dumber. According to a studypublished in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, men who spend even a short time talking to a woman th
Continue reading >>Modern-day science has little room for the likes of Galileo, who first used the telescope to study the sky, or Charles Darwin, who put forward the theory of evolution, argues a psychologist and expert in scientific genius.
Continue reading >>Treating type I diabetes and other immune disorders is so hard partially because researchers aren’t really sure why some people develop the disease while others don’t. One in three people carry the genetic possibility for the disease, but far fewer go on
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