Stress

Imagine being an astronomer in a world where the telescope was banned. This effectively happened in the 1600s when, for over 100 years, the Catholic Church prohibited access to knowledge of the heavens in a vain attempt to stop scientists proving that the earth was not the center of the universe.  ‘Surely similar censorship could [...]

San Diego—Would we have Poe’s Raven today if the tormented author had taken lithium to suppress his bipolar illness? Not likely, considering the high frequency of psychiatric illnesses among writers and artists, concluded psychiatrist Kay Jamison of Johns Hopkins Medical School speaking last week at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.

When most of us hear birds twittering away in the trees, we hear it as background noise. It’s often hard to separate out one bird from another.

How tough is it, really, to be the boss?

Gorilla Glass's residual stress can be explained by observing how the motion of individual atoms affects the entire system of the material

There are real benefits to rituals, religious or otherwise

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The plight of orphaned Romanian children reveals the psychic and physical scars from first years spent without a loving, responsive caregiver

A growing body of work shows that the brain has different systems and mechanisms to respond to certain kinds of threats and physiological changes in the body

Underground water supplies are being pumped at an unsustainable rate thanks to corn ethanol

New data show an increasing contribution of mental and behavioral disorders to deterioration in the health-related quality of life among teens in the U.S. and Canada over the past two decades, and increases elsewhere around the globe