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What Happens to Your Brain When Someone Breaks Your Heart
What Happens to Your Brain When Someone Breaks Your Heart
After you’ve been dumped, how do you pick up the pieces and find happiness again? Science offers insights.
Kathleen Murphy
Feb 12
Can This New Pain Medication Be a Game Changer?
Can This New Pain Medication Be a Game Changer?
There are few choices for pain that work well without many side effects, but this may change everything.
Dr. Julian Barkan
Feb 12
New ‘Valentine Scale’ Measures Your Love
New ‘Valentine Scale’ Measures Your Love
Answer 7 questions to get a scientifically validated sense of how your relationship is going
Robert Roy Britt
Feb 11
Hot-headed Decisions are Dooming Earth
Hot-headed Decisions are Dooming Earth
Higher temperatures muddle human thinking, and muddled thinking is raising the temperature.
John Kruse MD, PhD
Feb 11
What is Love, Actually?
What is Love, Actually?
Exploring the science, philosophy, poetry and pain of life’s most enigmatic emotion
Robert Roy Britt
Feb 10
Green Tea Linked to Better Brain Health
Green Tea Linked to Better Brain Health
All those antioxidants and polyphenols are good for the body and the brain, mounting evidence suggests
Annie Foley
Feb 10
Should You Take Daily Aspirin?
Should You Take Daily Aspirin?
Advice has changed, but misconceptions remain
Wise & Well Editors
Feb 7
The Secrets of Super Bowl Athletes: Strength, Agility and… Conscientiousness?
The Secrets of Super Bowl Athletes: Strength, Agility and… Conscientiousness?
A sports psychologist and diehard Eagles fan gets inside the minds of elite athletes and finds stuff you might not expect
The Conversation U.S.
Feb 6
Should We Vape Our Vitamins?
Should We Vape Our Vitamins?
Getting nutrients through our lungs sounds unsafe, but rad as hell. Here’s the science.
Sam Westreich, PhD
Feb 6
Raising Kids Doesn’t Have to Be Like Herding Cats
Raising Kids Doesn’t Have to Be Like Herding Cats
A plan to enlist your child’s trust and sometimes even their cooperation
Gail Post, Ph.D.
Feb 6
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