Cats sleep a lot. According to modest estimates, between 12 and 16 hours a day, that's most of what they do. Probably every cat owner knows this. However, a new study, published in the journal Current ...

The PGE Division includes the 100% owned, multi-million-ounce, district-scale River Valley Project, one of North America’s largest undeveloped Platinum Group Element Projects, situated 100 km by road ...

A tool called Funding the Frontier visualizes all the downstream impacts of funding — and predicts which studies will have the biggest societal impact.

Asking students to identify an example of what something is—and importantly, what it isn’t—helps establish clarity and leaves little room for misconception.

The federal government is more likely to fund curiosity-driven basic research, while industry is more likely to support research that has a clearer eventual payoff.

Lydia Goehr says that the discipline encourages thought and thoughtfulness, and trains students for all sorts of fields.

The "walking" philosophers, known as the Peripatetics, represent one of the most influential traditions in the history of ancient Greece.

Hermann Hoppe's Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (Opladen 1983). Translated by Andreas Tank.

Steve Goodman had just completed a three-page referee’s letter for an academic colleague who was going for promotion in a law department, when he received a bundle of papers that surprised him. The ...

Researchers in the LaCroix ABC Lab are looking for healthy adults for an attention study. The study has two sessions that last up to two hours each. Participants will receive $20 per hour. If ...

Psychological science is really our best shot at making sense of how people think, feel, and act. It’s rooted in old philosophy but runs today on experiments, observation, and data. Back in the late ...

The West’s religious humanism gave rise to a concept of human freedom that is nested within God’s loving involvement with the world.