A study analyzed the brain activity of military officer cadets and civilians while they were making moral decisions and concluded that the perception of being the author of our actions and their ...

Armed with new tools that reveal patterns of connection between brain areas, researchers are gaining clearer insights into ...

BRUSSELS — Is “following orders” a valid excuse for abandoning our moral compass? In a new study from Belgium, researchers watched people’s brains in real-time as they chose whether to inflict pain on ...

Twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee named David Greybeard strip leaves from a grass stem, creating a tool to fish for termites. This moment would redefine our understanding of what ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...