Distractions are processed by the brain more quickly than things we try to concentrate on.

There are other chemical culprits causing climate change, and scientists now urge more attention be paid to them.

An ancient member of the human family gets a digital makeover, revealing a mug that looks more apelike than previously thought. But not everyone is buying the result.

Employers should hire smokers at their own risk, suggest two new studies about job performance.

There's no grand conspiracy to decide what you'll buy. Rather, a few innovations and a lot of copycats create phenomena merely by chance. And you can bet whatever it is, it'll change.

A new study of living conditions in the Arctic indicates that traditional ways of life are important to indigenous peoples and that wages earned in the cash economy often are used to support traditional folkways.