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
On 12 April 1961, a 27-year-old Russian fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin became the…
Human Behaviour
Most people don't realize that men now entering their 70s are often being asked to…
Science & Engineering
In the summer of 1858, a lesser-known 35-year-old naturalist named Alfred Russel…
Human Behaviour
In June 1971, the New York Times began publishing excerpts from a 7,000-page…
Human Behaviour
The person who stays calm in every crisis often isn't fearless
Human Behaviour
For 24 years, the Soviet Union had used the world chess championship as proof of…
Human Factors
In 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed a small telescope at…
Human Factors
The most statistically dominant career performance in any major sport on Earth was…
Human Behaviour
Why people replay old conversations, and why no single explanation fits everyone
Human Factors
Stanford psychologist Laura Carstensen found that when older adults were asked to…
Human Factors
MIT researchers tested participants from age 10 to 71 and found something they…
Universe
The hundreds of human skeletons scattered around Roopkund Lake at 5,029 metres in…
Psychology
A University of Toronto study found that chasing happiness can make people less…
Human Behaviour
If a bee searching for nectar might be conscious and ChatGPT almost certainly…
Science & Engineering