Sustained focus, behaviour change needed to make people use new toilets: study

Adding a behaviour change component to sanitation programmes can motivate people to use toilets, it finds

Nudge for nature

A nudge can be a promising new tool to encourage people to act in an environmentally benign way

How culture shaped evolution

A new book argues that cultural evolution helped in the accumulation of locally adaptive knowledge much faster than genetic evolution

Prehistoric human footprints reveal a rare snapshot of ancient human group behaviour

Centuries ago, a group of 20 prehistoric modern humans walked through a volcanic mudflow, still active in Tanzania. This is what a footprint trail&…

Why we say 'huh' once every 84 seconds

N J Enfield’s book inverts traditional concerns about language and and seeks to understand it as we experience it—via the messy …

A scrapbook of wonder

Caspar Henderson inspires us to broaden the horizons of our sense of wonder

Human flux affects stray dog behaviour in India: IISER study

Kind treatment of dogs is reciprocated; they must also be allowed to scavenge for their meal and sterilised, the researchers said