The ability to learn socially from one another is a defining feature of the human species. Social learning enables humans to gradually accumulate information across generations. And although we are ...

Creativity grows when people feel free to explore new ideas without fear of being wrong, and Minecraft offers exactly that kind of space. The game drops players into an open world made of blocks where ...

A person interacts with a custom-built Minecraft environment used to study adaptive social learning in a virtual foraging experiment. This study, published in Nature Communications, was designed to ...