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Standing on the edge of a precipice, losing your way in a dark forest, or running into a ...

The apparent trend toward division and away from empathy isn’t irreversible, according to new research. Empathy is a ...

Teen brains no longer find moms’ voices uniquely rewarding starting around age 13, and start to tune into ...

Clues from a blood sample can predict how quickly patients who have had hip-replacement surgery will make a ...

Focusing on how social norms are changing can help people change their own behavior, new research suggests. Whether ...

Describing vegetables with words normally used for indulgent foods can get people to eat more of them, a ...

Young news consumers have trouble distinguishing credible sources from unreliable ones, according to a new report. For example, ...

Drop tests from as high as two meters show that an air bag bike helmet may reduce impact ...

Crisis hotlines have been around for years, but until recently there's been very little data on which counseling ...

New analysis of an image taken by the ALMA telescope in Chile reveals evidence that a dwarf dark ...

Physicists have set a quantum record by using photons to carry messages from electrons over a distance of ...

A new study finds quantifiable evidence that walking in nature could lead to a lower risk of depression. ...

For millions of years, blue whales have cruised the world's oceans with hardly a care, their sheer size ...

Compassion meditation be a way to focus a wandering mind, new research shows. Compassion meditation focuses on benevolent thoughts ...

Brief online interventions that instill a “growth mindset” and a sense of purpose can improve learning, especially for ...

A new technique could make it possible to capture high-resolution, 3D images of how light interacts with objects ...

Based on what you’ve “liked” on Facebook, computers can pin down your personality traits more accurately than your ...

The economic damage caused by a ton of carbon dioxide emissions – often referred to as the "social ...

Using a new algorithm, Stanford engineers can design and build a prism-like silicon structure that can bend light ...

People suffering from schizophrenia may hear "voices"—auditory hallucinations—differently depending on their cultural context, according to new research. Anthropologist ...