When you’re young, it’s hard to imagine your mother as a fully-realized person. She’s just Mom.As you get older, though, you might start to see your parents as humans, with joys, regrets and ...

Do you have siblings? If so, what are your relationships with them like? How much do you think they have influenced you — your personality, interests, beliefs and behavior?...Anyone raising more than ...

For thousands of years, people have waited on karma to catch up with their good behavior—or promised it would roll around for anyone who crossed them. The lure of karmic thinking is that if you ...

Podcast: Most linguistic datasets focus on written text, but what about the way we actually speak? TalkBank, the world’s ...

Every day, we make countless choices—but are these decisions guided by desire or design? This hour, TED speakers on what shapes the food we eat, how we power our homes, and how we communicate.Guests ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.Those ...

Since 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored excellence and convened leaders from across disciplines and divides to examine new ideas, address issues of importance, ...

A new NIH report emphasizes the importance of behavioral science in improving health, observes that support for these sciences at NIH is unevenly distributed, and makes recommendations for how to ...