Research on avoidance conditioning began in the late 1930s as a way to use laboratory experiments to better understand uncontrollable fear and anxiety. Avoidance was initially conceived of as a ...

SpaceX currently conducts an avoidance maneuver every time orbital models show a probability higher than 1 in 100,000 that one of the Starlink satellites will cross another object's path.

Tax avoidance costs the world's economies billions of dollars. In absolute terms, the United States experiences the highest annual tax losses of any country by far with an estimated $189 billion ...

More information: Matthew Schafer et al, Social avoidance can be quantified as navigation in abstract social space, Communications Psychology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44271-025-00215-8.

They are also, it turns out, world-class innovators in tax avoidance. This is one of the clear lessons from the European Commission’s announcement last week that Apple owed Ireland up to $14.5 ...