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Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand challenges such as puzzles.

Paying attention to the sticker price doesn’t always result in the best insurance coverage.

Folklore suggests that a full moon has a strong effect on sleep. But the reality is more complex, and lifestyle habits like screen use before bedtime are likely to have a larger effect.

A review of countries’ new climate pledges shows who is leading efforts to protect the climate their economies were built on and who is sliding.

Astronauts generally can’t look out the window like you might in a car – a ‘virtual window’ could instead serve that purpose.

Simplistic stories about the dangers of polygamy can be compelling and intuitive. But new research suggests some arguments about its harms don’t hold up.

Data analytics, putting safety out of bounds for competition, and collaboration among industry, labor and government are key to reducing a technology’s risks.

The situation had to get pretty bad before people really forced the government to act. But the effort was ultimately successful.

Britain’s two main right-wing parties disavowed themselves of the country’s nearly two-decade-old climate legislation