The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new ...

A new book offers an unsettling account of human exceptionalism and shows that the unique ways we gamble with risks and move out of our comfort zones may yet be our downfall.

In line with the idea that certain sounds may coincide with particular emotions, researchers have found that words may ...

There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...