The wealthy experience stress damage in their bodies at higher rates than the poor—upending everything we thought we knew about how hardship affects health.
Psychology's measurement crisis keeps deepening as thousands of unvalidated assessment tools proliferate, yet the field rarely acknowledges that many may be measuring nothing at all.
Light pollution has become a public health crisis that neuroscientists are only beginning to understand, leaving millions of people living under skies that their bodies were never designed to navigate.
A Georgian polyphonic song travels farther from Earth than any human creation, carrying a nation's voice into the cosmos—and its journey raises ancient questions about what humanity chooses to remember.
As wellness trends go viral, the real skill isn't the exotic word—it's the radical permission to want nothing from your own time.
The retreat involved no substances. The psilocybin comparison came from the lead researcher’s description of questionnaire scores, not evidence that the participants’ brains changed as they would after taking psilocybin.
When wildfire smoke turns the sky apocalyptic shades of red and gold, it's not the flames doing the coloring—it's physics playing a trick with light.
A new analysis of the dinosaur-killing asteroid upends decades of climate theory, suggesting the impact winter may have unfolded through an entirely different mechanism than scientists believed.
What our inability to tolerate empty moments costs us—and why the most productive people are learning to embrace doing nothing at all.
The scientific literature is being quietly flooded with fake studies, and nobody knows how to stop it.
When wildfire smoke turns the sky into something unrecognizable, it forces a reckoning between the scientific and the visceral.
I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year, and something in my chest actually loosened.
I don't think I'm being naive when I say: within my lifetime, "we're going away this year" might mean the Moon instead of Portugal.
On a Friday evening, being alone can feel entirely different depending on something I cannot always name right away.
This article discusses circadian biology and personal experience with light exposure.
The cat sleeps more. It jumps up onto things less. It takes longer to get comfortable and doesn't race around the way it used to.
