How we communicate via today's modern technologies may be more important than ever, but do old theories of mass communication still apply? The four functions of mass communications are: surveillance, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Numbers and sports go hand in hand. Watch any live broadcast and you will see and hear commentators and pundits talking about possessions, chances created, and the new expected goals (xG) statistic.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Since 2006, guns have been used in an average of 25 mass killings per ...

This important study combines optogenetic manipulations and wide-field imaging to show that the retrosplenial cortex controls behavioral responses to whisker deflection in a context-dependent manner.

Shooters often kill people who are, or presumably once were, close to them. 25 percent killed a parent, child or stepchild, and 23 percent killed a current or former romantic partner. Even some large ...

A study of 200,000 adults suggests that a metric accounting for waist circumference and height is a strong predictor of ...

The probability of worsening frailty increases over time, but targeted strategies might delay or reverse this progression, ...

Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that uses an instrument called a mass spectrometer to measure the mass-to-charge ratios of molecular ions. Molecules fragment within the mass spectrometer ...

Vox journalists forecast what 2026 could bring — from AI and climate to politics, health, and the economy — based on trends ...