If you’ve ever read a psychology textbook, you’re probably familiar with the tragic and infuriating story of Kitty Genovese, a...

Let’s take a moment to appreciate the father figures in our lives—and in the lives of mammals, evolutionarily speaking. Having a huge...

Are you the same “you” that you were twenty years ago? Thirty? Forty? What about fifty years ago? While science still struggles to...

Last week, we talked about a study suggesting that listening to a Bach sonata boosts the effectiveness of a painkiller. Today, it’s more...

When we say that listening to the right song makes us feel better, usually we mean it in terms of emotions. However, a new study from the...

Happiness: it’s something we all want, and in one way or another, most of us spend our lives attempting to pursue it. Multiple industries...

While there is no one fool-proof diet guaranteed to guard against age-related cognitive decline, a series of recent studies have found a...

"It's the healthiest thing I can think of to drink," says Dr. Christopher Ochner, nutrition research scientist at Icahn School of...

It turns out your teachers were being a little hasty when they said there are only five senses. For instance, there’s proprioception,...

At this point, it’s well-trod territory: why couldn’t star reporter Lois Lane recognize that her nerdy coworker Clark Kent was also...

Some amount of fear is healthy. As a 2015 episode of NPR’s Invisibilia illustrates, that rare person born with no fear suffers some...

If you’re looking to bring a change in your psychological state, the answer may be as simple as adjusting your eating habits. So, which...

Sleep: we all know it’s important. We all know we should be getting 7 to 9 hours a night. And yet one in five U.S. adults regularly fails...

Reading to a toddler-aged child does more than just get them to sit still for a few minutes. Led by James Law, Professor of Speech and...

Do you have a food allergy? If you’re an adult in the U.S., there’s about a 10 percent chance that you do—and, according to a new study,...

As if depressed or anxious people needed another thing to worry about, a new study from UC San Francisco suggests that depression and...

Science news is full of what certainly sound like promising new studies featuring lab mice or lab rats as the test subjects. New...

Parents won’t run out of things to worry over any time soon. A 2016 Pew Research Center report surveyed Americans with children under 18...

Imagine that scientists have discovered a painkiller that is incredibly cheap to make, has no dangerous side effects, and performs at a...

You already know that exercise is good for you. You may already know that exercise is good for your mind. For instance, you may have...