This 200-year-old treatment can be effective for a variety of conditions, but it does take work.

The New York Times

Stuck in a mental loop of worries and problems that seem to have no end? Here’s what you can do.

The New York Times

Extreme heat can influence mood and raise the likelihood of a more serious mental health issue. Here’s what to know.

The New York Times

These wellness practices — which center on one invisible network of vessels and nodes — have soared in popularity in recent years. Should you try them?

The New York Times

A brave doctor and a group of orphans embarked on a voyage to save the world from smallpox.

Discover Mag (Print issue)

The BA.5 surge is a reminder that we need to take precautions to avoid illness, slow the relentless cycle of new variants and minimize the disruption to our daily lives.

The New York Times

One anthropologist has made it her mission to remove racial prejudices from the study of hair and find the evolutionary roots of hair diversity.


SAPIENS

Gump was the last lizard of her kind when she died in 2014, and her demise should be ‘a scar on our conscience’


The Guardian

When your brain is presented with a scenario, it makes a decision: Does it file this moment away as a unique event, or slot the information into an existing pattern?


Catapult

Many water dwellers – from plankton to large fish – commute daily from the depths to the surface. Researchers are starting to shed light on this still poorly understood phenomenon.

Knowable Magazine; Republished in The Atlantic, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, and Inverse

Chit-chat is often dismissed as mindless and boring. But its absence over the past year is affecting you more than you think

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The Walrus

Hobbyists spend hours building their own personalized rigs, while others drop thousands of dollars on a bespoke board. The hype is only getting bigger.


WIRED

Tribal leaders say racism and harassment persist as members exercise treaty rights

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Environmental Health News

Little is known about pesky corallimorphs, except that they seem to thrive when reefs are damaged.


Atlas Obscura

The Gulf of Mexico is littered with tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and toothless regulation leaves climate warming gas emissions unchecked

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Environmental Health News

Trying to predict a situation impedes memory formation

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Scientific American

Microplastics in fishmeal are contaminating farmed fish—impacting their health, the nutrition they provide, and leaving consumers potentially exposed

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Environmental Health News

Countries already struggling with low crop yields will be hurt most by a warming climate

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Environmental Health News

The condition could help us better understand perception

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Popular Science

A 31-year-old Nepali infectious disease specialist is playing a key role in the country’s efforts to contain COVID-19

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Medscape