Last week, we talked about a study suggesting that listening to a Bach sonata boosts the effectiveness of a painkiller. Today, it’s more...

You already know that exercise is good for you. You may already know that exercise is good for your mind. For instance, you may have...

Whatever happened to Sigmund Freud? Of course, the answer is that he died, but not before taking modern science down a fifty-year rabbit...

Memory is a fickle thing. There are times when the important information you need, like an email password, remains just out of your grasp....

Hoarders are an interesting lot. Some contend that it’s a form of mental illness: the compulsive need to hold onto a wide variety of...

Have you ever wondered why some people—and maybe we’re talking about you—are so adamant about some things? It might be a political...

Exercise: you know you should, and yet for many, vanity might not be enough to get you on the old treadmill first thing in the morning....

When you think of brainwashing, the name Patty Hearst might come to mind. Daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst, in 1974,...

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, and so do humans. I’m talking, of course, about sleep. We spend roughly 33% of our...

Last year, roughly 40,000 people died in automobile crashes on America's highways. This is a tragic number, but it has been much worse in...