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Brigham Young researchers say their findings prove the value of social media as a possible tool in suicide prevention.

Being funny, being sexy or expressing a loving sentiment – that’s the cutting edge of human intelligence. 

People often conflate the conditions of happiness with material wellbeing.  There’s lots of evidence that there’s no connection at all. 

Just our luck… the only part of the UK with tight border controls. The picture on the front page of Private Eye shows a long line of cars queueing to […]

Obsessively searching the Internet for fixes to real or perceived health problems creates more anxiety in those who have a lower tolerance for uncertainty, says a Baylor University researcher.

Particularly for people who are new to wine, the design of the label can affect both the bottle’s ability to attract attention and the perceived flavor.

At least three days a week, sets of employees at UCLA Health participate in a short “Bruin Break” with dance music and easy workout moves. It’s part of a growing nationwide initiative to incorporate more movement into the work day.

Not exactly, say the authors of a new study. However, they have identified a certain gene variation that causes people to notice the negative more quickly while also experiencing emotional events more vividly.

The image above shows the convergence of an anti-GMO protest outside Central Park and the overflow of superheroes and superhero lookalikes in New York City. 

A cross-cultural study involving employees at multinational corporations in nine countries confirmed that cultural attitudes affect how absenteeism is viewed. What does this mean for an increasingly mobile and global workforce?

Leadership is a team sport. If you want to build anything of significance, you need to engage others.

It’s more important to have a useful perception of reality than an accurate perception of reality. 

We have a general bias to read intentionality into things, to see things as happening for a reason, to believe that objects around us have been designed for some purpose. 

A pilot study involving teenage girls at three UK schools found that those who took a six-lesson course on body image had “significant effects” on their self-esteem.

Researchers at the Netherlands’ Leyden Academy on Vitality and Aging admit to being “baffled” by the findings of a study that focused on citizens in 19 developed countries, including the US.

Philadelphia Children’s Hospital is the first in the nation to remove supplements such as echinacea and coenzyme Q10 from its list of approved medications. One reason given is that they may cause harmful interactions with other drugs.

More tests are needed, but if the chemical can be made into a drug, it could represent a powerful weapon in the fight against neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis.

Jeff Grant tells the powerful story of his incarceration in Federal prison for a white-collar crime.

Americans spend half the amount of time cooking than we did in the 1960s, and we have also defined “cooking” down to activities such as getting a pizza out of a box.

Avegant’s wearable goggles work by projecting images directly onto the user’s retinas, allowing the eyes to relax in a way that focusing on a screen doesn’t.

Thailand’s capital has long been a dangerous and unfriendly environment for cyclists. However, various public and private efforts are resulting in a slow increase on city roads.

A petition garnered 120,000 signatures, which is more than enough to merit a government vote, possibly before the end of this year. If it passes, it will apply to every member of the working adult population.

The American economy is not recovering because we’re still in the hangover of 30 years of debt buildup. 

Why is the Bible so obsessed with hygiene?

Both are being exacerbated by climate change, but the threat to civilization caused by drought is more immediate, with one study suggesting that it may have influenced current Middle East unrest.

Our problems have gotten worse and they’re getting worse faster and faster because that’s the nature of exponential growth.

            PIPELINES!!!!! Evil! Dangerous! Huge threats to the environment! MUST BE OPPOSED! Could there be a clearer example of how naïve and simplistic we’ve become about the harms of modern […]

There is no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle.

Bill Nye: I don’t think U.S. students are lazy. 

Americans severely under-report how much food they eat, and this has affected decades of nutrition data.