For many who are chronically connected, a break from tech sounds appealing. Research is uncovering when and how it helps ...

is an English teacher who’s interested in the stories people tell themselves and what those reveal. After years of exploring different kinds of therapy, she found an unlikely source of insight in an ...

Why has the ‘learning styles’ theory persisted without any evidence? And what do we actually know about how we learn?

Many of us crave trivial details while ignoring much of the world around us. Research helps explain this selective curiosity We are curious creatures. Not (just) strange, but eager for knowledge. We ...

Growing up, I could effortlessly recite all the lines of all the songs from the movie Saagar (1985), because for a long stretch of several weeks, day after day, I couldn’t stop listening to those R D ...

Abdullah Al-Salim Ellai was born on Socotra, a remote Yemeni island known for its exceptional wildlife diversity and striking coastlines. As Ellai tells it, when he was young, it was normal for locals ...

At 5 am, a correction officer (CO) flipped on the lights in our warehouse-like dorm. ‘BAKERY!’ he shouted at the top of his lungs, waking up nearly 50 sleeping inmates, although it applied only to ...

‘I don’t think about the future too much. I’m always thinking about the past.’ Born in Khartoum, Sudan, the artist Salah Elmur creates vivid paintings rooted in Sudanese life, politics and his ...

To be liked by others is often treated as a paramount aim. The quest for social approval begins in childhood, and it continues in a range of ways throughout the lifespan as people try to find their ...

My 10-year-old is a kamikaze, swift and shrieking and inexorable as she flies down the stairs and into my father’s legs. ‘Oof!’ he says, stumbling back slightly. My mom follows him, shaking her head, ...