
The Problem with Telling Children They’re Better Than Others
There is a superior way to motivate kids and make them feel proud about their accomplishments

The Problem with Telling Children They’re Better Than Others
There is a superior way to motivate kids and make them feel proud about their accomplishments

Want to Ease the Isolation of Social Distancing? Ask a Teenager
Teens’ tech skills can help keep us stay close when we’re physically apart


Can India Contain the Pandemic?
Public health interventions can work in this poor and populous country—but only if the people are involved in designing and implementing them

How Can You Tell If You Have Perfect Pitch?
Some famous musicians—from Mariah Carey to Jimi Hendrix—have a gift known as perfect pitch. What is it? Could you have it, too?

Polling Shows Signs of Public Trust in Institutions amid the Pandemic
The ongoing effort to fight COVID-19 wins broad support, even across partisan divides

Our Trust in Science Is Complicated
In an era of big research, having confidence in scientists, individually or collectively, involves trade-offs

The Loneliness of the “Social Distancer” Triggers Brain Cravings Akin to Hunger
A study on isolation’s neural underpinnings implies many may feel literally “starved” for contact amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Effective Psychological Therapy May Slow Cellular Aging
Cognitive-behavioral therapy improved both symptoms and markers of senescence in people with anxiety

How Twitter Is Changing Medical Research
From online journal clubs to “tweetorials” to conference updates, social media is changing the dissemination and discussion of biomedicine

Be Yourself—Everyone Else Is Taken
How to find meaning in life through authentic and autonomous living

To Flatten the COVID-19 Curve, Target the Subconscious
Getting people to comply with social distancing policies is basically an exercise in marketing

Must We All Become More Creative because of the Pandemic?
It worked for Shakespeare and Isaac Newton during plagues, but let’s not put more pressure on ourselves than we already have