Holding a door or giving up a bus seat feels small. Yet those moments build trust between strangers. Psychologists call them ...

A recent experiment conducted in the Milan subway system suggests that the presence of a costumed superhero can significantly ...

Would you behave better in the presence of The Dark Knight? According to science, that's a very real possibility, regardless of the fact that Batman is ...

Research by psychologists from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore discovered that simply having a man costumed as The Caped ...

The following is an excerpt of The Science of Superheroes and Space Warriors published by HowStuffWorks. We’ve taken a look at the two main supertechnologies that make Batman go; now let’s look at the ...

Panel description: What motivations sustain Bruce Wayne? What was needed to prepare him for his career as Batman? What has this career done to his psyche, his brain, his body? Psychology professor and ...

The worlds of scientific research and superhero comics rarely overlap, but when they do, the results can be pretty, pretty awesome. The latest blast of superhero-related science informs us that ...

Washington, D.C., October 30, 2015 - The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has named three winners for this year's AIP Science Writing Awards in the Writing for Children category for fun works on ...