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A crowd scientist is helping the Boston Marathon manage a growing field of 30,000-plus runners

Running the Boston Marathon is tough enough without having to jostle your way from Hopkinton to Copley Square.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

What happens when men don’t feel ‘man enough’?

A research team led by Lea Lorenz of the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau and Sven Kachel of the University of Kassel conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis that examined how men react to situations in which their masculinity […]

People with dark personality traits are naturally inclined towards leadership roles, finds new study

Can you tell if you’re working with a narcissist or a psychopath? A new study suggests that people’s job choices may offer some clues, especially in fields built on leadership and persuasion such as business, […]

Absinthe: What the ban on France’s aromatic spirit teaches us about modern-day blaming and shaming

The potent emerald-green blend of wormwood, green anise and fennel, known as “the Green Fairy,” was once celebrated by French society, including artists from Baudelaire to Van Gogh. By the early 1900s, France consumed more […]

Swipe right? Dating apps linked to body image pressures

Bumble, Tinder or Hinge—they’re the fast-paced, image-driven dating platforms millions rely on to find everything from love to a late-night fling. But new Adelaide University research suggests they may also be undermining how young adults […]

Would you spread pain to be fair? fMRI study tests moral choices in ice water

When making ethical decisions, university students appear to prioritize fairness and the fate of the worst-off over either reducing total harm or obeying unconditional moral precepts, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. Woo-Young […]

Ranks of Disparity: New approach fixes flaw in fairness algorithms

As organizations increasingly rely on algorithms to rank candidates for jobs, university spots, and financial services, a new method, named hyperFA*IR, offers a more principled approach when picking candidates based on a limited pool of […]

Do you see faces in the clouds? Researchers examine pareidolia

Humans are masters of seeing faces in any old thing—a handbag, TV static, toasted white bread. Scientists want to know why. A few years ago, as the category 5 Hurricane Milton bore down on the […]

How an eye physician who translated classical Greek medicine into Arabic helped form Western medical thought

A medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship, according to a study published in the journal Cogent Arts and Humanities.This […]

By age 7, most children quickly spot individuals’ social biases toward social groups, study finds

Most elementary school-aged children have a surprising cognitive ability: they can detect—nearly as well as adults—when someone treats people from one social group differently than another. The study, “Children’s and adults’ detection of social biases,” […]