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Feedback is pleased to see that researchers are looking into the urgent issue of which angle blood might travel at following a violent act in space

We can tell if it's about how many objects are inside, or the shape of those objects.

After watching people rattle boxes, study participants could accurately predict the shaker’s goals.

After watching people rattle boxes, study participants could accurately predict the shaker’s goals.

Watching people shake presents reveals little-known quirk of human cognition

Researchers studying "pragmatic actions" have some timely findings about what we learn when people shake their presents.

Publishing in PNAS, researchers from Johns Hopkins University asked hundreds of ‘observers’ to watch ‘players’ shaking boxes in 5 fun experiments. 

When Johns Hopkins researchers asked hundreds of people to watch other people shake boxes, it took just seconds for almost all of them to figure out what the shaking was for

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was one that Simon & Garfunkel would’ve been proud of — researchers sought to answer the question, “What is the sound of silence?” Evidence from the study shows that our ears perceive silence like they do sound, making it more interesting than it appears. Sarah Hargus Ferguson, an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Utah, told the Deseret News th...

The study investigated if our ears perceive silence like they do sound — Simon & Garfunkel might’ve been onto something with their famous ‘Sound of Silence’ lyrics