A famous professional video-game player on the Internet, Tom Burke has made waves for treating his passion like a full-time job. Does that make him a sellout?
Gamers have found a way to get a younger generation excited about raising millions for charity. And they don’t even need to put down their controllers.
The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.
Tonight's episode of Modern Family will make you want a MacBook. It's one big advertisement for Apple.
The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.
It's sometimes the people least secure in their place who really, really want us to know they belong.
Americans consistently fear blindness, but how they compare it to other ailments varies across racial lines.
An etiquette expert, a social scientist, and an old pal of mine ponder the ever-shifting rules of friendship.
Coming to terms with growing old can be difficult in the gay community. But middle-aged men are inventing new strategies to cope.
Office leaders who bully even just one member of their team harm everyone.
Researchers rank the popularity of all of the different methods we have for telling people about our lives, from Facebook to face-to-face.
But even with odd experiments and disparate conclusions, researchers are edging closer to a more nuanced idea of how they change our behavior.
Babies provide more help to adults who bounce in-sync with them along to music.
Previous neuroscience research has suggested yes, but a new study finds an unexpected window for it in the static of your brain.
Coordinated snooze time is the signal of a stable marriage, a new study suggests.
A new study suggests the media's attitude toward the sport's players could play a major role in its tough-guy ethos.
A new study finds that a harassed worker is better off than a neglected one.
A new study finds acoustic differences between genuine and feigned laughter and explains why we're so good at distinguishing the two.
Being snubbed by a luxury store only increases your desire for its goods, according to a new study.
Dust off your pens and notebooks. A new study finds laptops make note-taking so easy it's actually ineffective.
The costs of banning America's favorite kids drink from schools may outweigh the benefits, a new study suggests.
The science behind the rhythms that get you on the dance floor.
Simply moving toward or away from something alters the way you think about it, according to a new study.
A new study looks at the dark side of our love for Ke$ha, Kanye, and co.
A whistleblower's new study shows publicly calling out fraudulent research may lead to more corrections.
A pioneer large-scale study suggests the common strategy to get people riding public transportation does, in fact, work.
Anthropomorphizing animals is a bad strategy for education, a new study suggests.
A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.
Listening may not be the best way to judge an orchestra's chops.
New software allows researchers to model life inside a bee colony more efficiently, which could help prevent economic catastrophe.
Geography-based passwords may be the future of online security.
Top accolades may actually produce more negative online ratings.
A surprising number of people smoke often but still don't consider themselves smokers, according to a new study.
A new study finds a correlation between good looks and achievement at the Tour de France.
It might be a cure for road rage—or just the cause of more accidents.
Is the best reason to tell the truth simply that it’s easier?
A new study finds that prisoners who deny their guilt are more likely to hold out on eating before execution.