When you know it's over with someone but can't move on, asking the right questions can bring clarity you didn't know you ...

Are you an objectivist or a nihilist? A mystic or a communitarian? Or something else entirely? Here's a fun way to find out.

If your child is having a complete meltdown, there's one phrase that almost always makes things worse. Child psychology ...

Moral perfectionism is the preoccupation with cultivating only good deeds and only good thoughts and feelings about others, ...

Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new ...

Scientists say their new insights into how a key brain protein works could help resolve a long-standing question in molecular ...

The documentary Thoughts and Prayers (now streaming on HBO Max) boasts an ironic subtitle: How to Survive an Active Shooter in America. Ironic, because the film offers no such instruction. Rather, it ...

Liam Drew is a freelance writer based near London, UK. Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music ...

Zackary Canepari and Jessica Dimmock update "Bowling for Columbine" for a country that still refuses to address one of its most preventable crises. Bulletproof desks that students can flip over at the ...

“In retrospect, Sandy Hook marked the end of the U.S. gun control debate,” British columnist Dan Hodges wrote in 2015. “Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.” It’s difficult ...

Using powerful 7-Tesla brain imaging, researchers mapped how the brainstem manages pain differently across the body. They discovered that distinct regions activate for facial versus limb pain, showing ...