After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

Altruism is helping without a benefit and sometimes at a risk to one’s self. Recent research that found killer sharks ...

Data from a new study suggest that the nature of pain symptoms among those in chronic pain likely evolved to cultivate ...

The study analyzes how carbon taxes, technology spillovers, and altruistic preferences affect green technology investments in ...

Altruism is real and developed because it confers an evolutionary advantage that is ultimately greater than the benefits of selfishness, an international team of mathematicians claims to have ...

It’s one of my favorite Darwin quotes—"He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke"—scribbled furtively in a notebook between visits to the London Zoo in the summer ...

He is also one of the founders of effective altruism — as well as the person who, in 2012, recruited an M.I.T. undergraduate named Sam Bankman-Fried to the effective altruism cause.

KUALA LUMPUR: The human resources ministry does not view migrant worker protection as a matter of mere compliance with ...

We don't think we'd ever heard of Oakland University, a second-tier institution in suburban Rochester, Mich., but Barbara Oakley, an associate professor in engineering, may help put the place on ...

Altruism may exist in honey bees, which is inherited through their mothers: study A new study suggests not only that honey bees can be altruistic, but that it is a maternal genetic trait ...