A recent study takes a closer look at what’s happening in the human mind when we really want to believe something.

An ambitious effort to create a neurophysiological paradigm to explain near-death experiences has failed to capture many fascinating and often perplexing aspects of people's brushes with death, top ...

Abstract: The Kriging model has been widely used in regression-based surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) for expensive multiobjective optimization by using one model to approximate one ...

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According to social psychologist Roos Vonk, our ego impedes our social relationships and our personal growth. "If you're always trying to be likable, lovable, cool or smart enough, you'll never really ...

The U.S. Supreme Court directed a lower court to review the ban, which applies to strict vaccine requirements in New York schools. By Joseph Goldstein The U.S. Supreme Court signaled on Monday that it ...

My entire life, I have hated math. I’ve never once needed to calculate the area of an isosceles triangle or solve for x in a quadratic equation. Sure, maybe I limited the various paths and ...

Oklahoma City Fire Department uses aerial platform to rescue car from icy waters The Oklahoma City Fire Department responded to an accident where a car had crashed into water near the 18800 block of ...

A University of Oklahoma student received a zero on a psychology essay after using her religious beliefs to discuss gender norms. The graduate student instructor said the grade was for not properly ...

Of the few guiding axioms of Nigerian politics, perhaps none is more indelible than the idea that you cannot understand the Nigerian society without reference to religion. The more you know about ...

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind The multibillion-year story of life on Earth is defined by a handful of epochal ...

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Austin and San Antonio, Texas. This essay is the second installment in a series on the thinkers, upstarts and ideologues battling for control of the Democratic Party.