Nudges” are behavioral-finance parlance for little cues that urge us to do things at certain times, and have been embraced by governments and organizations to influence behavior. For example, when you ...

Simple models predict that only one strain of an infectious disease can exist at one time, but observation suggests otherwise. In a study in the August issue of The American Naturalist, Ken Eames and ...

Since the Enlightenment, champions of progress have urged us to break free of the chains of tradition. Just because "we've always done it this way," is no reason to keep doing it this way. It is ...

Nearly 47,000 pet dogs have quietly rewritten what scientists thought they knew about canine behavior, aging, and modern life ...

In a new study, researchers have shed light on the numbers and types of genes that may control social organization in fire ant colonies. This work suggests that a relatively small number of genes, ...