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Is it better to work in large groups? Smaller ones? With other people who are similar or different? New research offers insight into these questions -- and some of the results are not what you'd ...

Janet Taylor Spence recipient Mark Thornton, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College and director of the Social ...

After all, it’s clear that many Americans feel disengaged from science or democracy or both. One reason may be that they blame science and technology for causing or failing to solve big problems, from ...

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Research indicates that nearly everyone dreams regularly–even those who claim they never do ... most people remember at least one dream in a night,” she tells Popular Science.