Like many students at the university, Azan Yousaf of Novato and Sizi Rios of San Rafael are in the first generation in their ...

In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have been caught on camera doing something startlingly human: treating each ...

Ovarian cancer is often diagnosed at an advanced stage due to vague symptoms like bloating and pelvic pain, making early ...

Their findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) point to a specific area of ...

That is the way of rational, “effective altruism,” of which Singer, as we know, is an intellectual founding father. Effective altruism is a philosophical movement aimed at maximizing good ...

The analysis of 3 dozen studies found similarities and differences in motivating factors for and against clinical trial ...

What is altruism? And is there a particular personality type that naturally delivers acts of kindness to others?

Simply, impactful activities are being overshadowed by the pursuit of career experiences. Our priorities are becoming entirely self-driven, and altruism is seen as secondary. While there is no ...

That’s why, as chief joyologist at Tito’s Handmade Vodka—seriously, that’s her real job title—she strives to incorporate the principles of altruism into all aspects of the company’s ...

A 2016 British study published in Evolutionary Psychology examined how much a man’s level of altruism influences his attractiveness to women. In the study, led by University of Worcester ...

Those efforts have helped inspire the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, a worldwide network of people who have made a commitment to fight global poverty and disease. Many members of EA have pledged to ...