The poise that reads as confidence in a woman entering her seventh decade is often something stranger and heavier — a nervous system trained by forty years of preventing collapse.
Edward Tronick's still-face research found that even securely attached mother-infant pairs are out of emotional sync most of the time — and that what predicts secure attachment is not the frequency of attuned moments, but the reliability of repair after rupture.
Chris Butler, the Hawaii-born guru behind the Science of Identity Foundation and the spiritual teacher of Tulsi Gabbard's childhood, has not appeared in a verified public photograph since the mid-1980s. The clearest images of him are roughly 40 years old, and the movement built around his voice has thrived on that visual silence.
The Chinese word for gunpowder is 火藥 (huǒyào), which translates as "fire medicine.
An investigative reporter spent nearly eleven months reading more than 25,000 pages of internal documents handed over by a former senior aide — a cache larger than the Pentagon Papers and now reshaping how Washington reads one of its rising political figures.
On January 3, 2013, Tulsi Gabbard placed her hand on a Bhagavad Gita she had carried through her Iraq deployment and was sworn in as the first Hindu American ever elected to the United States Congress.
On the morning of 29 March 1974, a Chinese farmer named Yang Zhifa, working with five of his brothers and a neighbour named Wang Puzhi, was digging a well in…
The everyday language around batteries has settled into something convenient: we "charge" them, they "run out," we "top them up" when we can.
Run your own fingers across your palm and almost nothing happens. Brain scans suggest the reason sits in the cerebellum, which forecasts the feel of your own movements and quietly subtracts it.
Norman Triplett built a contraption out of fishing reels to test a hunch he had formed watching bicycle racers. The result became the founding experiment of social psychology, though what it actually showed was messier than the textbook version.
A patient in the late stages of Alzheimer's may not be able to identify the room she is sitting in, the year she is living in, the meal she ate twenty minutes ago, or the face of the daughter holding her hand.
Somewhere between the cyclone and the Wicked Witch of the West, a generation of American economics students has been taught that the small girl in the silver…
The Greek merchant ship that sank off the coast of Chios in approximately the fourth century BC was carrying, by the most likely reconstruction of the events…
The country that sent Sergei Krikalev into orbit on 18 May 1991 was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
On the night of 25 January 1849, Captain Kempthorne of the ship Moozuffer recorded in his log that the Arabian Sea around him had begun to glow.
Every cell in the human body carries on its surface a set of molecular flags called MHC class I molecules.
