Recent headlines and social media feeds have become dominated by the news of the Cyclospora outbreak. Like many people, you may have seen an ongoing stream of posts, videos, and updates covering the ...

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Life’s End and Humanist Funerals. By Matthew Engelke. Princeton University Press. 280 pp. $26.95. “Even if you avoid thinking ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. Ah—the treasured sleep. We know it’s good for us. In a 2026 study, sleep was found to be the number one factor to buffer against the health costs of work stress. In ...

Back in 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headline news after being fired by the company due to his claims that its Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) chatbot was “sentient.” ...

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When my mother died, I felt her “stay.” The science is catching up: death may not be an end to consciousness, and this ...

Due to AI chatbots’ increasing ability to simulate human-like interactions, some people “fall in love” and develop emotional attachments to chatbots. Couples therapy, anyone?

Art appreciation isn’t just a brain experience. Research shows that art can measurably change bodily responses, revealing how ...

As scores of young adults rely upon family for help and housing, hallmarks of adulthood and identity are forever altered. Two authors and research shed light on the trend.

Therapy isn’t just about what happened in the past. Sometimes the most powerful healing happens in the room, in the ...

I review about 100 character strengths studies per year. There are always a few studies that give me pause. I might see a counterintuitive finding, an idea I had not considered, or something that ...