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Dr Robert Friedland (inset), neurologist at the University of Louisville, shared his six tips for keeping your mind sharp at any age. These include meditation, flossing, and spending time with friends.

“The one gene, one disease idea is a thing of the past.” Scientists aren’t simply trying to identify people who are innately predisposed to incivility, immorality, or lawlessness. They’re examining how parenting, education, and other life experiences trigger those biological leanings.

Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan.

GOING DOWN: The Citizens Research Council calculates that with inflation and payments to retirement programs, per-pupil funding reaching Michigan classrooms has declined since 2004. (courtesy graphic/Citizens Research Council)

The darker corners of YouTube document state-sanctioned conservation efforts with video compilations of feral pig hunting. Legal, lethal control of this exotic invasive species is on full display as citizens use guns and iPhones to complete the job. Interested viewers need not search hard to find hog hunting footage of aerial gunning from helicopters or […]

Evan Auguste and Steven Kasparek join APS’s Ludmila Nunes to examine how psychology has contributed to anti-Blackness within psychological research, criminal justice, and mental health, and what scientists and practitioners can do to interrupt the criminalization of Blackness and redefine psychology’s relationship with justice.

Anti-poverty programs in the developing world often sputter because they clash with local culture and values. But researchers are finding success with programs that align with the tenets of the communities they’re trying to help.

Big Tech, the American federal government and leftist elites are now plainly advocating for censorship of any information they don’t agree with, even if that information is verifiably true. Mal-information is the latest ugly offspring in the censorship family tree. Unlike its more well-known cousins “mis-” and “dis-information,” mal-information specifically targets true information.

APS has updated its publicly available collection of journal research pertaining to trauma and disasters. [updated February 14, 2023]

Uncovering the lost history of Black resistance in Niagara Falls rewrites 'everyone’s history'