Deceptive data is all around us. While some of it is less harmful than others, deception in defense has the potential to undermine all the technological improvements that are planned or have been ...

A new book by University of Exeter ecologist Dr. Martin Stevens called Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead is a great read, full of lots of research data, fascinating ...

You may be familiar with some of psychology’s most famous experiments involving what seem to follow questionable ethics by today's standards. The set of studies on obedience to authority conducted by ...

Deception wrong-footed scientists three times in ten years, and remains a mystery. Wikimedia Only two volcanoes in Antarctica are active. There is Mount Erebus, which is roughly due south of New ...

The more we watch animals, the more we learn about their complex lives. Here are three famous examples of animal deception. The killdeer is a plover bird found in the Americas living on shorelines. It ...