Hunter‑gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality—but the reality is more complicated.

A new book shows how parents can help kids become emotionally mature so they can live happier, more successful lives.

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From here the story gains momentum: As Ditto, your mission is to get the environment back to habitable levels and bring back ...

Daniela Kaufer is an associate professor at UC Berkeley who studies the biology of stress, examining at the molecular level how the brain responds to anxiety and traumatic events. Her recent findings ...

Research finds that most of the benefits of meditation don't depend on how long you meditate for. Instead, consistency ...

Dozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell. Here’s the misperception that keeps people from acting and how ...

Three months into the pandemic, I had the urge to see my 28-year-old daughter and her husband, 2,000 miles away. She had weathered an acute health crisis, followed by community protests that propelled ...

When I turned 40, I kept waiting for the narrative around middle age to catch up with me—the whole “downhill from here” thing. It never did. As I moved from my early to late 40s, one feeling resonated ...

“You’re not the POTUS; you’re the BLOTUS,” said Late Night host Stephen Colbert about Donald Trump. “You talk like a sign-language gorilla got hit in the head.” I laughed along with everyone else in ...

Trust is essential to a functioning society. To get through life, we need to be able to basically trust people we love—our friends and family—as well as our neighbors, colleagues, and even people we ...

Joel Salinas, a Harvard neurologist, and Robert Bordone, a Harvard lawyer, are experts in the study of conflict. But their communication styles are quite different: Salinas, with over a decade of ...