Mark Campbell, PhD, the S.C. Thomas Sze Director of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and John A. Mellowes '60 Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, ...

In the pre-industrial age, twilight was a dangerous time for humans due to higher risk of encountering nocturnal predators. The ability to see in weak light conditions was therefore at a clear ...

When it comes to self-assessment, new U of T research suggests that maybe we do have a pretty good handle on our own personalities after all. "It's widely assumed that people have rose-coloured ...

A novel algorithm to simulate the color appearance of objects under chromatic illuminants has been proposed by Ichiro Kuriki of Tohoku University. The figure shows the result of applying this ...

Misperception of speech results from a weak representation of the difference between what we expect to hear and what is actually said, according to a human neuroimaging study. The research provides ...

The index, which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople, uses a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SurveyMonkey, the leading People Powered Data platform, in collaboration with Fortune, today released the third edition of its annual U.S. consumer rankings of ...

A novel algorithm to simulate the color appearance of objects under chromatic illuminants has been proposed. "#theDress image" refers to a photo that went viral on the Internet in February 2015, when ...