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Mind and Behavior
A blood test to diagnose mental illness is a "holy grail" of psychiatry.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
This is the latest study to confirm that the brain does not fully mature until at least the third decade of life.
High-conflict people are found in all walks of life. Learning how to identify them, and what to do next, can save you much emotional turmoil.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
Temperatures in the Sun's core exceed 10 million degrees Celsius. But how on Earth did we actually come to know that?
Financial setbacks are more common than you might think.
Million Stories
Being a jerk gets you rich, promoted, and laid (if you're a man). But there is a downside.
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It's about uniting with the divine.
Having a "buff" skeleton prevents infirmity in old age.
Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.
Some would say AI is immortal and all-knowing — Godlike, even.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
About 2.5% of women and 2.2% of men in the U.S. meet the criteria for body dysmorphic disorder.
In all mammals, there are two brain pathways for processing information from the eyes: an evolutionarily ancient one and a more modern one.
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!
Your five-year-old can probably spot a cop-out.
Virtually anyone can now create convincing deepfakes. That doesn't mean you should.
The nature of civilizational threats has changed in a mere decade.
There's such thing as a healthy sense of pride in oneself and one’s accomplishments.
Frugality can also benefit the environment.
Million Stories
Depression might be similar to dreaming.
Are anti-workers the lazy children of privilege or the brave vanguard of a utopic upheaval?
“Like real dreams, it does not explain, does not complete its sequences," film critic Roger Ebert once wrote about "Mulholland Drive."
Some scientists think brain organoids could develop a form of consciousness. Others say that's science fiction.