Psychology
Mind & Meaning
Psychology and the human experience under pressure. From the introvert who needs three days alone after a party to the astronaut managing isolation on the ISS — Mind & Meaning explores how people make sense of themselves and others, and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Human Factors
South Korea was producing very little internationally recognised music in 1995
Psychology
Researchers who study cults say the people most likely to join aren't the gullible…
Science & Engineering
At Kyoto University, dogs who saw a stranger snub their owner later took fewer…
Science & Engineering
Trained dogs can sniff out certain cancers from a person's breath or urine, with…
Psychology
At 43, a stroke left French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby conscious and lucid…
Human Factors
By Al Pacino's own account, in the spring of 1971 Paramount executives tried three…
Science & Engineering
Dermatologists have long documented that the expressions worn most often across a…
Human Factors
When Singapore became independent in 1965 it had no natural resources, no…
Human Factors
Ireland spent most of the 20th century watching its young people leave for work in…
Science & Engineering
Saudi Arabia knows the day is coming when the world stops needing oil
Human Factors
Daniel Kahneman spent a lifetime studying judgment and distilled one warning into a…
Human Factors
Cats sleep between 12 and 16 hours a day not because they are lazy but because…
Science & Engineering
Every Antarctic winter, male emperor penguins stand for more than two months in…
Psychology
A Yale psychologist asked 660 older adults in Ohio how they felt about growing…
Human Factors