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

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

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

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 d...

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 La...

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 anx...

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

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 l...

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 enco...

As Halloween approaches, let’s pause for a moment to consider a common piece of creepy iconography in Western culture: the bat. Associate...

Studies show that senior citizens are more connected to the web than ever before. According to the Pew Research Group, smartphone ownersh...

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it,” wrote Jonathan Swift in 1710. Variations of the saying, including the punchier "...

If you’re not, say, a recent time traveler from the Middle Ages, by now you’ve probably heard that exercise is good for you. If you’re a ...

When it comes to adults, the benefits of meditation are no mystery. As the Mayo Clinic notes, meditating has a whole host of upsides, fro...

Since the days of Hippocrates, science has struggled to quantify human personality, and group the seemingly infinite combinations of trai...

Does someone in your life havean unusually short fuse? Maybe you’ve witnessed a co-worker repeatedly go ballistic on the printer whenever...