If we're asking people to exercise, save money, deny themselves some pleasures in the moment so they can do better in the ...

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars ...

Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the provably ...

Kristin Scott is a professor of management at Clemson University. She studies employee resilience, organizational leadership ...

Our study found that hope worked in part by increasing positive emotions, which in turn boosted resilience. That means that ...

Astronomy is a lovely undertaking by day or by night, but the sky has delights to offer in the between times as well. When ...

Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks ...

Two sets of fossilized footprints from early human species were made within a few hours of each other about 1.5 million years ...

Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom ...

In the weeks before and after the U.S. presidential election, many of us are asking about the role of empathy in American ...

Milder cases of pneumonia, dubbed “walking pneumonia,” are on the rise in young children this year The temperature is ...

Drought is more synonymous with the western U.S., but the eastern part of the country can descend into such conditions ...