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Computer science is the study and development of the protocols required for automated processing and manipulation of data. This includes, for example, creating algorithms for efficiently searching ...

The key word being neurobiological. When in the throes of raising a neurodivergent child, it’s easy to forget that their behavior is rooted in biology. That's partly because there is no ...

🏈 Vrabel comes home: Former Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel, who won three Super Bowls in New England, has been hired as the franchise's next head coach. 🏀 Flagg goes off: Cooper Flagg gave ...

While behavioral science came to this conclusion relatively recently, Freud and his predecessors became aware of this more than a century ago when they determined that most humans are “credulous." ...

Computational science is a discipline concerned with the design, implementation and use of mathematical models to analyse and solve scientific problems. Typically, the term refers to the use of ...

Professors Rick Larrick and Jack Soll found that second opinions are most valuable if independent — but advice-seekers undermine their value by asking the wrong question In every setting, from the ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers ...

Modern portfolio theory (MPT) and behavioral finance represent differing schools of thought that attempt to explain investor behavior. Perhaps the easiest way to think about their arguments and ...

Our understanding of the universe is based on advances made in basic science research over approximately the last 100 years. The core scientific disciplines of math & statistics, physics, chemistry, ...

New research reveals how oxytocin profoundly influences social behavior and emotional responses in the brain. Animal models have shown how this hormone impacts social fear and how chronic stress or ...