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Neuroscience provides a chemical explanation for why some people are extroverted — seeking constant company, novelty, and thrills — and why others prefer solitude, routine, and serious talk.
The influence of women in a man's life, from mother to wife to daughter, is likely to make him more generous, according to surveys of the male population and controlled laboratory studies.
Ideas from modern philosophy hold up better to scrutiny than does Buddhism.
To Orthodox Jews, eruvin are a crucial component to their faith. To everybody else, it is as if they didn’t even exist
A medical researcher at Imperial College London has created a smart knife which can tell doctors within three seconds if a group of tissue is cancerous or not, making biopsies possible during operations.
Recent studies have validated the essentially one-sided story that popular vitamin supplements are associated with high incidents of cancer, heart disease and death.
A pair of French researchers have discovered a virus of record-breaking size and mysterious genetic make up. Only seven percent of its genetic code matches that in existing databases.
A new review of 21 hunter-gather societies indicates that competition for territory may drive conflict, and that when territory is not up for grabs, widespread aggression generally does not occur.
This week in 1848, 68 women and 32 men signed a Declaration of Rights and Sentiments for women’s equality. This document, and the convention at Seneca Falls, New York, out […]
Taking a pill could one day replicate many beneficial effects of exercising, according to a pair of studies that successfully simulated physical workouts at the cellular level.
China wants to challenge Anglo-Saxon monopoly on cultural soft-power? Don’t do it all in English! Why Zhongguo Meng, and not “Chinese Dream?” This we learn from history: Great powers (almost) […]
Look up at Saturn tonight and Saturn will be looking back at you. Well, not exactly, but the Cassini spacecraft will be orbiting Saturn and taking a picture of you.
I really do believe that America has this weight problem, obesity issues and we have all these diseases that we get, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases that are primarily lifestyle diseases.
If your mother was stressed during pregnancy, then you have a higher probability of being an addict when you grow up.
Pleasure is absolutely central to human behavior because it’s evolutionary ancient.
We’ve made a little progress, perhaps in applications, but not a lot of progress in understanding the hard problem.
The current research that is most exciting is aimed toward understanding how the brain looks now at the connectivity between specific areas.
As we learn about things more deeply and more deeply, we will discover that in fact, there’s all kinds of peripheral work to be done that we couldn’t have even imagined looking forward.
We often want something to be illegal that we don’t actually want punished in a lot of circumstances.
News of a company behaving unethically has become so common that it hardly raises an eyebrow except, perhaps, in the most egregious cases – and even then the outrage is […]