Stories by Catherine Caruso

Some celebrities take such therapies, claiming health benefits

Standard methods often fail to catch infections during the first month

The finding raises questions about how different people respond to pain

Machines that can read and react to social cues may be more acceptable companions and caretakers

Evidence suggests it is for the greater social good

Lab-grown bundles of brain cells may be the future of drug testing 

Alcohol activates brain cells linked to hunger

Learning a memorization technique used by elite memory athletes leads to widespread changes in brain wiring

The feat represents a leap forward in developing artificial intelligence that can learn with incomplete information

Watching video in slow motion can lead us to believe actions are more intentional

Political conservatives are more likely to care about the environment if climate messages focus on restoring the planet to its past state, a study shows

A decades-long study finds men raised in close families have stronger attachments in old age

A long-standing code of ethics prohibits diagnosing public figures from afar

Putting too much conscious thought into an automatic action can derail it

A study in mice reveals that alcohol activates brain cells linked to hunger

Brain regions involved in recognizing visages continue to develop into young adulthood

Blood screening technology may be able to diagnose infections before symptoms emerge

New mothers showed evidence of neural remodeling up to two years after giving birth

Recent research highlights the mismatch between what people want and what they want to give

An orange–avocado material that could keep crops hydrated during droughts places first at the Google Science Fair

Social hierarchies among rhesus macaques give rise to differences in their ability to respond to bacterial and viral invaders

Researchers identify a brain area activated by both tickling and play in happy rats

Scientists used special microphones to let us listen in on a tickled rat’s titters.

A Q&A with psychologist Philip Kortum