Trailblazers in the study of resilience, working memory, burnout, and diversity are among the 13 scientists being honored ...

The premiere of the first-ever season of The Golden Bachelorette has been on my calendar for months. I can’t wait to watch 24 men who have aged exceedingly well climb out of their limos and greet the ...

As a grid of video feeds blinks into view, attendees across the country prepare for an ideological collision. All have signed up for a virtual forum billed as an “empathy cafe,” held to spark dialogue ...

Was social media a good invention? One way to quantify the value of a product is to find out how many of the people who use it wish it had never been invented. Feelings of ...

Children’s short attention spans are often framed as a barrier to learning. New research suggests that their limited ability ...

Podcast: This episode's conversation reviews how our visual system uses templates and exaggerates the basic features of ...

Research is revealing intriguing clues about how pregnancy changes the brain....Dr. Ronald Dahl, director of the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not ...

Meditation apps offer users an accessible introduction to an ancient, evidence-based practice known to help quiet the mind.

Shortly after generative artificial intelligence hit the mainstream, researchers warned that chatbots would create a dire problem: As disinformation became easier to create, conspiracy theories would ...

It’s been a while since I really fell to pieces at the end of a long day. But I know the feeling, and I instantly recognized it when a colleague with young children told me ...

Lisa Feldman Barrett is professor of psychology at Northeastern University and author of How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.In a recent Scientific American article, she asked whether ...

You might have noticed that the seasons don’t quite behave like they used to. In some places, fall and spring seem to fly by, while winter and summer are much longer and feel more intense.