📊 Research

• 🦌All the World's a Stag

  Game theory research reveals how political inequality destroys cooperation and why groups prove less trusting than individuals.

• 🙏Does Forgiveness Lead to Forgetting?

  New research reveals that forgiveness transforms the emotional weight of painful memories without erasing their details.

• 🪦World's Oldest Mummies Discovered in Southeast Asia

  Ancient remains from Southeast Asia reveal mummification practices dating back 12,000 years, predating Egyptian and South American examples.

• 🕉️Infinite Reflection

  What you learn when you let LLMs follow their bliss

• 🤖When a Claude Meets a Claude

  AI stress tests and the "spiritual bliss" attractor

• 🌟How to Measure a Life Well-Lived

  A groundbreaking multinational survey is beginning to uncover insights into the when, where, and why of human flourishing

• 📚Bad Education

  How self-discipline impacts educational outcomes and why it may favor girls over boys in school performance. But is it always an asset?

• 💀Dying Fast and Slow

  Explore the borders of life and death as scientists debate the intricate dance of dying cells at a groundbreaking NIH workshop.

• 🎭The Overconfidence Game

  Explore the Dunning-Kruger effect's latest revelations as experts and non-experts test their limits of self-awareness in new, illuminating experiments.

• 🔬Research on Emergence

  Explore the intriguing world of emergence where simple elements form complex systems, a concept transforming our understanding across disciplines.

• 🌳A Family Tree With 27 Million Branches

  A new technique lets researchers plumb oceans of human genetic data to produce the largest ever family tree — and they’re just getting started.

• 📜Inequality and the Constitution

  Explore how James M. Buchanan's public choice theory intersects with Madison's constitutional ideals, highlighting tensions in America's founding principles.

• 🚬Ancestral Smoking Is Bad for You, Too

  A new study links present-day health with childhood tobacco use three generations prior

• 📉Social Hostility Towards Religion Declined in 2019, According to Recent Research

  A Decline in Terrorism Led the Reduction, while Government Hostility Remained Steady

• 🌟Hope and Optimism - The White Paper

  A new report explores the benefits of two related virtues.

• 📊Religion Data, Remixed

  Retooling a Key Resource for Research on Religion

• 🔍The Honesty Project

  A new three-year project to investigate the science and philosophy of an understudied virtue.

• 🔬Expanding Views of Cancer's Causes

  A blood test for early-stage cancer holds promise for treating the many cancers caused by the accumulated “bad luck” of multicellular living

• 📚Expanding Latin American Philosophical Work

  Developing inroads for Latin American philosophers in a new and global interdisciplinary conversation

• 🎓New Project to Extend the Digital Reach of Classical Liberal Ideas

  Explore how a new project is revolutionizing PPE education with cutting-edge digital content on core topics like market failure and public choice.

• 🧠Using Big Data to Quantify and Cultivate Genius

  Far from being solo achievers acknowledged for pure achievement, geniuses may be largely the products of their networks.

• 🤔Getting to the Right Question — and Beyond

  Can a creative technique that works for third-graders help grad students launch their research careers?

• 🔍Interview | Opening Up on Open Science

  The director of the Center for Open Science speaks with Templeton.org about the “reproducibility crisis” and his organization’s plans to help scientific research stay true to its values.