“Equality” in this context does not mean identical facilities for all. Rather, it means creating spaces that are genuinely usable by diverse populations and allow meaningful participation in public ...

Self-interest describes actions that are intended to result in personal gain. It comes with both pros and cons.

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

A major Fraunhofer Institute study finds plug-in hybrids consume far more fuel in real-world driving than official WLTP ...

The Sentencing Project's article cites evidence that increasing prison sentences based on criminal history does not improve public safety and disproportionately harms people of color, and proposes ...

Roughly 11% of all U.S. children ages 3–17 have been diagnosed with ADHD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. That’s the equivalent of two to three ...

A longstanding belief in the publishing world suggests that men avoid reading fiction that centers on the lives of women. However, new research indicates that a protagonist’s gender has almost no ...

A new study found that non-autistic U.K. adults are less able to understand animations (representing specific words) generated by autistic individuals compared to animations generated by non-autistic ...

Drugs that act on NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors, which are essential for learning, memory and moment-by-moment consciousness, are key for treating neuropsychiatric disorders. These drugs were ...