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Climate change activists show hands in support of climate action during a climate strike rally, as part of a global youth-led day of global action.
Climate Change
Study finds widespread climate anxiety among youth
What Happens When Your Unconscious Mind Is In Charge
Baby and mother
Science
Bilingual babies practice lip-reading long before monolingual counterparts
Teenagers film video in Argentina. A new study says that adolescents seem to have become more creative in visual arts.
Arts, Culture & Media
A new study says your kids might not be so boring after all
Welsh conductor Grant Llewellyn conducts an orchestra in 2007.
Environment
There’s a reason why great music can give you a ‘skin orgasm’ — chills down your spine
Listeners Weigh In On What Influences Their Family Planning Decisions
FTC Complaint: Children’s Apps Not Really Educational
Environment
New research seeks to determine what dreams mean
Health & Medicine
Dermatologist suggests Botox as a possible treatment for depression
Health & Medicine
Bioethicist raises ethical questions over long-term life support
Health & Medicine
Expert says laws, not funding, biggest obstacle to effective mental health treatment
Health & Medicine
Scientists taking closer look at how critical hearing is
Global Politics
NYU researcher doubts science can contribute to understanding creativity
Arts, Culture & Media
Can creativity be measured with a score?
Arts, Culture & Media
Stanford professor reveals the art of procrastination in new book
Environment
Research looks at science behind the smell of fear
Arts, Culture & Media
Reuters journalist explores the complicated science of sleep in new book
Health & Medicine
U.N. summit focuses on how to improve global happiness
Environment
Research shows sounds can influence how people taste food
Environment
Artist spends decades teaching a computer to paint — successfully
Environment
Computers now smart enough to write fiction, design snack foods
Health & Medicine
Larger social networks — especially earlier in life — leads to larger brain development
Environment
Microsoft’s Bill Buxton on risk and innovation
Environment
How governments can create policies that promote happiness
Global Politics
Boys don’t do as well as girls in school – video games can help
Health & Medicine
Form of chronic, mild depresson often goes untreated
Global Politics
How to be happy with what you have
Health & Medicine
Surprising finding on resilience of 9/11 survivors
Business, Economics and Jobs
The perfect income for happiness
Health & Medicine
Nature in psychotherapy
Business, Economics and Jobs
Software helps businesses cross cultural divide
Environment
The science behind making decisions
Arts, Culture & Media
Chinese arts and censorship
Business, Economics and Jobs
Financial worries on the brain
Environment
Brain implant could restore memory function
Environment
Creativity and madness
Environment
Nature vs. Nurture: Solved
Environment
Our brains and New Year’s resolutions
Arts, Culture & Media
Soap operas with a message
Environment
How we remember
Environment
‘This is Your Brain on Poverty’
Lifestyle & Belief
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not A Network
Environment
Imaginary Friends Forever
Environment
Gary Marcus: Enhancing Creativity
Environment
Gary Marcus: Defining Creativity
The World in Words
Will New Words Change How We Think About Illegal Immigration?
Global Hit
Haitians Rediscover the Melancholy Music of Beken
Can a Math Museum Remedy ‘Math Anxiety’?
The Science Behind Optimism in a Grim World
Understanding ‘How the Mind Makes Meaning’
The Real Science of Erasing Your Brain
Is Empathy Inherited or Taught? Listeners Respond
Environment
Imaginary Friends Forever
Arts, Culture & Media
Gary Marcus: Enhancing Creativity
Lifestyle & Belief
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Network
Arts, Culture & Media
Robopainter
Arts, Culture & Media
The Computer as Artist
Audio Essay: A History of Recall Elections
Is Technology Making Our Children Narcissists?
Arts, Culture & Media
Music Heals