The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who ...

A new study examines the extent of adverse effects for those who meditate and pinpoints those most at risk of experiencing them.

Doubling-back aversion—defined as the tendency for an individual to forego taking an easier or faster route when it involves ...

Anxiety symptoms among U.S. adults, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, appear to have remained stable, according to a massive ...

Podcast: In this episode, cognitive scientists Rebecca Saxe of MIT and Heather Kosakowski join host Scott Sleek to discuss ...

Numerous studies since then have backed up Harris’s core idea that parents don’t matter as much as many people think. Genes, for example, seem to play a bigger role than the environment that children ...

Overuse of digital gadgets harms teenagers, research suggests. But ubiquitous technology may be helping older Americans stay sharp....The opposite appears true. “Among the digital pioneer generation, ...

How to give better adviceResearch suggests that when we give advice, it’s often biased toward our own experiences. We share insights that we would find useful, but they might not be as relevant to the ...