Study: Skydiving Not Relaxing
Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone. More »
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Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone. More »
Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go. More »
53 percent of U.S. adults now favor marriage equality. More »
Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist. More »
Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends? More »
The U.S. FDA announced a plan to investigate and potentially regulate caffeine. More »
Nine and fourteen-month-olds prefer "individuals who treat similar others well and dissimilar others poorly." More »
The "nerve agent" does not directly kill. Rather, within seconds, it turns our own nervous systems against us. More »
Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering. More »
U.S. Naval medics are forcing tubes down the noses of detainees at Guantánamo Bay in order to feed them against their will. The U.N. has said this violates international law. When does "suicide prevention" become torture? More »
Archaeologists announced today the "first solid evidence" that some 17th-century American colonists consumed one another. More »
The American Academy of Pediatrics said today that it respects the decision of women to give birth at home -- on the following conditions. More »
We learned this week that intestinal bacteria convert nutrients from egg yolks into a compound that correlates strongly with heart disease, stroke, and death. More »
41 percent of U.S. adults "feel stressed a lot of the day." Stats in some states are much worse than others. More »
Major medical journal takes on the eat-cinnamon-feel-terrible meme very late in the game; awareness and mystique of proscribed act heightened More »
Today the Boy Scouts of America "called to end" its ban on gay members. More »
Hear the soundtrack cut "Over the Love." More »
The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress. More »
