It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine ...

Someone jumps or makes a sudden move towards the ball. When they land and plant their feet, I hear a loud, familiar “pop.” In the brief second of silence that follows, the thought “I hope it’s just a ...

Vilfredo Pareto’s Treatise on General Sociology has long been considered one of the seminal works of modern sociology. One list even ranked it among the hundred most influential books ever written in ...

Recent research by Dr. Michelle Segar and colleagues (2026) examined all-or-nothing thinking as a barrier to developing a ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Elaine Pinggal from Monash University, and colleagues assessed how sleep-like brain activity in awake adults influences sustained attention during a task.

People may think of survival as an individual act—every animal (and person) for themselves. But a new study from UCLA suggests that when it comes to facing hardship together, social groups may ...

Boston filmmaker Sophia Horowitz tells GBH's All Things Considered that she wanted to shift the focus from the trauma of sexual assault survivors to their healing journey.

How they use their time looks different for older and younger adults. And across age groups, it differs by gender. Using data from the American Time Use Survey – conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau – ...

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Across the country, Black-owned fitness spaces are reshaping the way wellness shows up in local communities.

Socionomics is a financial theory that some kind of collective social mood drives observable political, economic, and financial trends.